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Posted on 07/11/2025 8:01:21 AM PDT by george76
Nothing will ever be easy with congressional Republicans. The reconciliation package aged all of us 35 years, as Sen. John Thune (R-SD) and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had to whip votes, hold the line, and make some phone calls. President Trump was also working the phones heavily when final passage was at stake in the House. Republican leadership held the line, but with Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) retiring after the reconciliation vote, delivering what’s left of the Trump agenda before the 2026 midterms is about to get even tougher.
The House did its job and passed the rescission package, but it's currently in jeopardy because the same group of troublemakers in the Senate —Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Susan Collins (R-ME) — are holding up the measure over concerns about cutting programs that are a complete waste of taxpayer money. What’s worse is that they’ve found new allies in Jerry Moran (R-KS), Mike Rounds (R-SD), and Dan Sullivan (R-AK). These are the cuts Elon Musk wanted codified, at least in part, before he left the Trump administration. He was arguing against the wrong bill, but we digress.
So, let’s clear the air on some of the cuts that some of these senators find problematic. First, defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting ($1.1 billion) has been a conservative goal for a generation. It’s biased, its CEO is aloof (and biased), and PBS has been overtly projecting Democrat propaganda for years. They don’t need our money to stay afloat; they can sink or swim like the rest of us.
The Democracy Fund—$83 million—bankrolled programs for “Yemen community resilience” and spent millions on LGBT nonsense in the Balkan States. The Economic Support Fund—$1.65 billion—produced Iraqi Sesame Street, pride parades in Lesotho, and millions to subsidize Palestinian media companies.
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Development Assistance was a $2.5 billion boondoggle that tried to get electric buses off the ground in Rwanda, a vegan food consumer base in Zambia, and civic engagement operations in authoritarian Zimbabwe. Folks, this is first-world, urban, liberal nonsense. For starters, eating ‘vegan’ is an elite privilege. Most people would die of starvation on that diet, and that goes double for the people of Africa. You need to eat meat to survive. Period. There’s a reason why the late Anthony Bourdain compared vegans to Hezbollah, at least in the culinary arts.
The Bush-era President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) isn’t going to be crushed, which you know is going to be a liberal talking point. The package preserves the $10 billion program that’s saved countless lives. Still, funding for programs about transgender sex in Nepal, LGBT advocacy in Uganda, and free training in pastry making for male prostitutes are in the trash bin.
International peacekeeping, which has been rife with fraud, is taking a $1 billion haircut.
We’re talking about $9.4 billion in cuts from wasteful USAID, State Department, and U.S. Institute of Peace spending. It’s a start, and if people don’t get that, I don’t know what else to say.
Is this RINO band upset that gay prostitutes won’t be able to make sfogliatelle?
Wake up and get with the program. The voters, who elected President Trump in a landslide, want these cuts. Get them done.
Oh, and there is a deadline: if nothing is acted upon by July 18, this package expires.
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Maybe instead of wasting time and money on a new party, Musk could primary these RINO's.
I think the simply means that if they don’t notify it, Trump is going to move ahead with executive orders that will stop these payments from going out.
It would be nice if the Senate passes this, but Trump has the final say with the executive orders. Can anybody Verify if I’m right?
If real MAGA made their own party we could have left these leftist republicans in the dust of their failures and unpopularity. That was the mistake.
You can’t fix this party. Why do you think Trump would keep endorsing that sickening POS Lindsay Graham? Because Lindsay is for sale for his vote.
But there is a huge cost. And that is getting harder to hide anymore.
Hey https://freerepublic.com/~randfan/ where is your precious Sen. Paul who ALWAYS pops up to stop tax cuts and President Trump legislation like BBB.
Hilarious how he’s so silent now about recissions. When he’s really needed to cut spending he’s MIA and tilting at windmills LOL
Nobody understands rescissions. Call them deletions.
MAGA is dying by a 1000 cuts. I used to think the judges were the biggest problem but it’s Congress especially the GOP in both houses. If MAGA and DOGE isn’t codified, what’s the point? The next time Democrats have power everything is reversed with a vengeance.
If the Rs cannot pass these into law all the deadbeats that have been dismissed will be back on the Fed teat by 2027. Nothing will have been saved.
These guys aren’t RINOs. They’re Republicans. That means their political agenda is built on spending trillions of dollars on welfare for white people. THE END.
If Elon was politically smart he would work to primary these five in the Republican primaries.
But apparently he's not.
And EXACTLY why the GOPe will lose next year. They got a $5,000,000,000,000 debt ceiling raise and will spend every dime of it. RINOs & CO. should be the name of the party as ‘republican’ has been ruined for over a generation.
They will whatever we do, just like they did when biden took office.
MAGA days ago: Put the DOGE cuts into law in the BBB!
Republicans: We can't do that in a recissions bill. We'll pass the BBB as is and get to DOGE cuts later.
MAGA today: Okay, now the BBB has passed, put the DOGE cuts in this new bill!
House Republicans: We can do that because it's a recissions bill.
Senate Republicans: That'd be unwise because (checking notes) (silence) (checking notes) (more silence)
The usual scumbags
Agree. The feckless GOP is what it is.
Yet people still keep referring to it as “our party” for some inexplicable reason. Its actually just the lesser of two evils.
Its actually just the lesser of two evils.”
and not by much.
I TRIPLE GUARANTEE EVERYONE THAT NONE OF THESE WOMEN -—AND OTHERS EVER HAD ANY ACCOUNTING TRAINING.
It has always been congress, at least in the modern era of the last 100+ years.
This was the whole point of the progressive ideology to begin with was to remove the relevancy of our elected officials by making them choose to be irrelevant.
Congratulations, they are irrelevant.
Congress does not want to abolish any progressive agencies such as the Department of Education because then that would mean that congress would have to start doing the job of a congress again and they do not want to do that.
The biggest mistake we conservatives have made in the last 50 or more years was abandoning the Tea Party, which was mainly congress-focused. But nobody in the voting pool wants to fight. They want to watch football, and not be bothered by any of it until election day. Then they want 729 days off.
Freedom does not work that way. It requires constant involvement.
And its going to continue.
Watch as Trump doesn’t endorse conservatives - he just went out there and endorsed Linda Graham.
A Trump endorsement of Graham perpetuates our long term Congressional problem. I might even go so far as to say another 6 years of Graham in the senate is an absolute disaster. That seat in South Carolina is utterly WASTED on what is otherwise realistically a very liberal republican senator.
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