[blueplum]

You’re concerned about a billion, but you’re not upset that the schoolyard games Cruz, Lee and Rand pulled using the FC (yes, used them like 2 dollar flipflops) just cost us working joes

One

Trillion

Dollars

by not allowing medic-aid caps and medic-aid funding caps to go forward? And who knows how much in personal savings from eliminating Zerecare penalties and payroll taxes before tax day??

[Alberta's Child]

The "billion" in my previous post was a metaphor for a large pile of money that American taxpayers don't have the cushion to lose, not a real number.

The trillion dollars in "savings" you reference didn't exist. And I know it didn't exist because those Medicaid funding caps were the reason all those moderate "Tuesday Group" Republicans were opposed to the bill. What this means is that the GOP would have been forced to drop that trillion dollars in savings in order to get the moderates in their own party on board -- and that's even before the Democrats in the U.S. Senate got involved in the conversation.