Will the Democrats Accept the Gift House Now Being Offered to Them?

Trump's BBB is an act of class war opposed by a vast majority of Americans

MAY 22 -23

By Marc Cooper

It’s little wonder that the MAGA rammed Trump’s “Big Beautiful” tax and budget bill through the House in back-to-back- all night sessions Tuesday and Wednesday. But don’t get the wrong impression.

These were not marathon sessions that started in the morning or afternoon and stretched arduously into the wee hours. Nope. They were each intentionally scheduled to begin at 1 am, were rushed over the next few hours, with no hearings and not even with enough time to allow Trump’s toadies to even read what they were voting on.

The final vote hit the floor near dawn Thursday and was approved by one single vote 215-214. These deliberately middle of the night sessions, appropriately resembling s vampire shift, might come as a surprise from a congress habitually reticent to work, one that has an ever shorter work week, and longer vactaion breaks.

Yet, the dead-of-the-night legislating was perfectly consistent for the pack of immoral and vile creatures who populate the House majority who, in the end, are despicable cowards. The Trump budget and tax bill, which still need Senate approval (a 97% chance) is shameful enough that even these callous flunkies in the House know that the less the American people are aware of their subservience to an addled dictator and the plutocrats who fund him and them, so much the better.

That passage of this bill will almost certainly lose the House for them next year; slashing Medicare and food stamps that will shed as many as 10 million poor and disabled of health care, and that will cost a couple of million their already niggardly food assistance is also edging toward the third rail of American politics – a possible $500b cut in Medicare that serves 70m Americans, many of them Trump voters. (more on the in a few minutes)

The loyalty of the House turds to The Boss combined with the their ideological delusions, and their massive ignorance, were strong enough to push them eerily close to political suicide come the midterms. (Oh, did I mention the other key propellant: the unabashed up front scorn and hatred for the poor?)

Every single element of this stomach-turning legislation is opposed by 60-70% or more of voters. And it shamelessly constitutes a major step in the greatest transfer of wealth from bottom to top in American history.

Sorry to use such old-fashioned rhetoric but this is open and aggressive class war. The wealthy and their political servants shaking down the most vulnerable among us. The ten richest Americans made an extra $365b last year and now will get a new tax cut so they can hoard that money while millions of others are struggling to buy two day old bread at Walmart.

We now live in a split screen America seen in radically opposite ways depending on whether you watch Fox News and listen to Goebbels impersonator Charlie Kirk or if you live in a fading and collapsing Real World.

THE SPLIT SCREEN

On the one side, the little piggies, their piggie wives and their piggie pols. On the other side, prosaic American families eking out a prosaic life.

On the Fox side of the screen viewers can celebrate the Thursday night VIP dinner for the top 200 purchasers of Trumps otherwise worthless meme coin. Revenue for this imaginary currency goes right into the pocket of Donald Trump whose front organization has already made $330M in trading fees alone on the coin and maybe three or four times as much on the coin itself.

That side of the screen can also focus on the majestic beauty of the Qatari dictator’s 13 year old hand-me-down $400m plane –Arab Force One—that has already been accepted by the tattooed dope who runs the Pentagon and which, after all the BS, will wind up as an unconstitutional personal gift to Donald J. Trump. We are a wealthy country so what if it’s going to cost $1b to retro fit and will become the third operational Air Force One; each costing more than that yearly just to maintain.

And imagine the patriotic chills that will run down their legs (along with some body fluids) on June 14th when the unhinged Great Leader’s 79th birthday will be celebrated, along with the 350th anniversary of the U.S. Army by a massive military parade that will cost $50-100 million. Don’t be surprised if your hear of George Washington turning over in his grave.

Euronews fills in the details: “According to official planning documents, the twin-celebration includes almost 7,000 soldiers, more than 120 military vehicles, 25 Abrams tanks and 50 helicopters. In addition, there will be a “spectacular” fireworks display and a day-long festival on the National Mall, an Army spokesman said in a statement. Planning is ongoing and could still be changed.”

Yet to be announced: will there be a mausoleum constructed along the route to act as a viewing platform for Trump and the American nomenklatura? No word yet, either, if any effort will be made to bus in the tens of thousands of homeless vets to watch this grand celebration. Or perhaps a big, beautiful artillery strike on the Department of Education building as the grand finale.

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SCREEN

Over in the Real America side of the screen, viewing is just as bountiful but not quite that celebratory. Trump’s largesse with the plutocrats comes precisely at an historic moment in which the vast majority of Americans are living in great economic uncertainty and/or scrambling to just get by.

Trump has promised for years right up through today that he would not make any cuts to Medicare or Medicaid that together serve 110 million Americans. And as I pointed out last week, even after Medicaid will be left bleeding out on the floor, he will stand by that lie. True, his bill will make no reduction in benefits for the program. It simply imposes onerous ongoing and frequent paperwork requirements that will make it very difficult to enroll and just as hard to stay on the program. Somewhere between 8-10 million recipients will be churned out.

So while most all Americans are already struggling with shrapnel from the tariff trade war, facing persistent inflation, high interest rates, battered 401K’s, sky high prices, and now a brewing housing crisis, Trump/MAGA are significantly adding to their burden with his BBB.

Democratic operative Dan Pfeiffer has compiled a neat summary of just what is contained in Trump’s bludgeoning of the bottom 2/3 of the population,. Tariffs, persistent inflation, and high interest rates will now be compounded by Trump’s “win.”

What’s in the Bill?

• A $3.8 trillion extension of the 2017 Trump tax cuts, which overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy.

• Nearly $700 billion in Medicaid cuts, which could cause 8.6 million people to lose coverage.

• $267 billion in cuts to SNAP (food stamps)—kicking 3 million families off assistance and jeopardizing school meals for 18 million children.

• A massive increase in defense spending, plus over $100 billion for Trump’s mass deportation efforts.

• Defunding of Planned Parenthood, via a ten-year block on Medicaid reimbursements.

• Elimination of several clean energy tax credits created by the Inflation Reduction Act.

• Over $300 billion in cuts to student loan programs, including repeals of Biden-era income-driven repayment and forgiveness efforts.

• An extension of the debt ceiling, likely into 2027.

There’s more—some of it still being uncovered. The bill is sprawling, opaque, and was assembled in the most chaotic way imaginable. But if you remember just one thing, let it be this: The richest Americans—those making $1 million or more—would get nearly $90,000 in tax breaks each year. The average family earning less than $50,000 would get less than $1 a day.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, by 2027 the bill would increase household resources for the top 10% by 4% while reducing them by 4% for the bottom 10% by 2033. It would also add more than $2.3 trillion to the national debt over a decade and could trigger up to $500 billion in automatic Medicare cuts under budget enforcement rules.”

Medicare cuts? Probably yes. We don’t know yet as the bill is still being massaged for near certain approval by the Senate weasels. But it’s a real possibility.

The Washington Post reports:

Trump and the GOP’s budget reconciliation package — officially titled the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — would add $2.3 trillion to the deficit over 10 years, the Congressional Budget Office projected, forcing budget officials to mandate across-the-board spending cuts over that window that would hit the federal health insurance program for seniors and people with disabilities.

When legislation significantly adds to the national debt, which already exceeds $36.2 trillion, it triggers “sequestration,” or compulsory budgetary reductions. In that scenario, Medicare cuts would be capped at 4 percent annually, or $490 billion over 10 years, the CBO reported in response to a request from Rep. Brendan Boyle (Pennsylvania), the top Democrat on the Budget Committee.

Again, Trump will plead innocent if this comes to pass. It’s not his fault if the Deep State CBO impose these cuts even if Medicare rates a 75% approval and whose payouts constitute medical coverage for millions, not just the poor. You know, elderly folks who VOTE.

Trump’s poll numbers are already underwater on almost every issue. On health care he’s barely over 30%. The big beautiful bill squeaked by in the House by one vote, almost guaranteeing a Democratic takeover in 2026. Screw around with Medicare –that no administration has ever done—and you just might lose the Senate as well. A recent poll reveals that 76% of Americans oppose any cuts to Medicaid or Medicare.

The chatterboxes in the media are uniformly reporting the passage of the BBB by the House as a “big win” For Trump. Like Waterloo for Napoleon. He won the vote, yes, barely, but he’s setting the stage for a big, beautiful rout.

The Democrats are more or less being handed the House, regardless of whatever minor adjustments the MAGA weasels make in the Senate. Will Democrats remain sufficiently comatose to miss this opportunity? I’m making no wagers on this one. But it’s a layup if played even half-assed correctly. +++

P.S. I continue to ask myself this question. Next Spring, when and if it becomes a near certainty that MAGA will lose the House, can I really picture Donald Trump passively accepting that reality without conspiring with MAGA to suspend, disrupt or delay the mid-terms? I’m having a lot of trouble seeing that. Yes, the states not the feds run the mid terms. But a majority of states are MAGA dominated at the top. Just as one example, in Oklahoma last week, top state officials (all MAGA) decreed that in public school text books, the 2020 election should now be described as rigged and stolen. Are those officials going to certify the election of any Democrats next year? And that’s just one solid red state out of more than two dozen. I tend to think there is plenty of margin for multiple MAGA states to effectively block and/or sabotage the 2026 mid terms. Please tell me I’m wrong. And I’m not talking about routine voter suppression. +++.

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