[RandFan]

Freepers, the honeymoon is well and truly over they cant even get the big beautiful bill out of committee...

We will drift now to perhaps inevitable midterm defeat unless something dramatic happens.

It's a combination of lack of leadership from ALL sides (branches) in my opinion and just no guts to make the necessary cuts.

What is your considered assessment?

[Zhang Fei]

It’s incredible that Green New Deal spending remains in the bill. The pandemic is long over. We should not be running $2T annual deficits. The Trump and Biden era pandemic spending hikes need to be phased out.

[Sacajaweau]

Getting 219 people to agree on everything is an impossible task to start with...but they’re working on it. Don’t be so damn impatient...and stop blaming Johnson. He’s doing a damn good job. Blame the damn committee. They should have made their wants known BEFORE the vote....and their job is to support the President’s agenda...not their personal agenda...and that includes the New Yorkers who play their games.

[Angelino97]

I don’t understand this story. The headline implies that conservatives were opposed to the bill. But the article says that all Democrats opposed it

[TornadoAlley3]

It will pass. The Freedom caucus will surrender.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The GOOBers just can’t help themselves from shooting themselves in the foot.

[9YearLurker]

Congress’s habit of “big, beautiful” (really ugly) bills is a major part of their corrupt overspending.

And that habit is continuing here. Continued “green” grants, funding for sex change operations, no incorporation of the DOGE cuts, for example from USAID. Overspending and corruption galore.

Meanwhile, they’ll be almost halfway through Trump’s two years of a Republican Congress before funding the mass deportations that Americans voted for and want.

[Sirius Lee]

Demoncraps circle the wagons. Republicans form a circular firing squad.

[trebb]

My assessment it that the Republicans who stopped it are of the “all or nothing” type and that’s the type that will take the Nation down by giving power to the Dems.

[Pete Dovgan]

Congress does not have the same concerns as the public.
Spending only helps them, it never hurts Congress, and year after year the deficit grows and more lobbyists arrive in DC. The entire time the currency is rendered useless, taxes increase, and the working people get poorer and poorer.

This is an example of Congress protecting the status quo, and a few Trump people that want balanced budget. We seem to be angry not at the democrats, but at those who want the eventual right thing. Those individuals want deeper cuts, which I agree with, but they will destroy all progress for nothing.

The way to fix this is actually simple. Balanced Budget Amendment, with a provision that all Congress people, current and past, lose all benefits, income, and retirement EXCEPT Medicaid and social security and unemployment, unless they pass a balanced

The way to win the midterms, and stop the madness is apparent. The public now sees the danger and extreme measures needed to stabilize the system after auto pen Joe and the Democrats. Trump voters should take the lead to save the nation and demand candidates for a balanced budget amendment. The Democrats will be destroyed at the polls in the midterms with this strategy, and it will begin the purge of the RINO’s. The public will be 80-20 for a balanced budget, and if you add term limits to it, maybe more. This is the hill to die on, IMHO, let the democrats defend prior spending and autopen Joe.

[flamberge]

What is your considered assessment?

You called it correctly.

We will drift now to perhaps inevitable midterm defeat unless something dramatic happens.

[Rlsau1]

First of all, nothing passed and signed into law by Joe Biden should be in any spending bill. Everything he did should be questioned and held in abeyance until his competency to actually sign anything is established. The plain and simple fact is nothing Washington does makes much sense, and the actions of Congress are almost always related to political self-preservation and personal benefit. There are absolutely no democrats and very few Republican members of Congress interested in doing what’s right for America and Americans.

[joe fonebone]

WOW!!!
A big, beautiful bill...
Has anyone actually read it, or is this a “we gotta pass it to see what is in it” moment again???

[JesusIsLord]

It's a combination of lack of leadership from ALL sides (branches) in my opinion and just no guts to make the necessary cuts. What is your considered assessment?

The democrats are in lock-step against anything the President wants. The republican party in both chambers is made up of establishment, TDS and a few MAGA conservatives.

Can someone explain how 'leadership' can remedy the lack of republican cohesion? How does 'leadership' get establishment, TDS and MAGA republicans to support the President's agenda?

If anything is to get done in Congress, it will require COMPROMISE that makes republicans to vote in unison and in some instances also requires attracting democrat votes particularly in the Senate.

There is a Star Wars movie scene that shows the frustration that representative government can cause.

During a pivotal scene in the Senate chamber, Amidala pleads for immediate action against the Trade Federation's aggression. However, she faces skepticism from other senators who demand proof of her claims and propose forming a commission to investigate the situation. This bureaucratic delay frustrates Amidala, who insists that she was not elected to watch her people suffer while discussions drag on.

[Lazamataz]

My assessment?

Trump will only be a four-year delay in the utter destruction of America.

But I’ll take even THAT.