“Republicans had a hard time persuading some of their own lawmakers to support the party’s big tax-cutting and domestic-policy bill. They might have an even harder time selling it to the public,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Polls show that the bill is unpopular. Opposition outweighed support by more than 20 percentage points in recent Fox News and Quinnipiac University polls. Some Republican lawmakers facing tough races next year represent the most Medicaid-reliant districts. They will have to defend the big cuts in the bill to Medicaid, the health-insurance program for low-income and disabled people, as well as to rural hospitals and to nutrition assistance, once known as food stamps. Those cuts help fund tax cuts in the bill that President Trump called for during the 2024 campaign.”
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G. Elliot Morris: “On average across pollsters and methods, 31% of Americans support the One Big Beautiful Bill, while 54% oppose it. That net rating of -23 is, to put it mildly, absolutely abysmal. That’s true in both absolute terms (having a majority against you with just a third in support is terrible!) and comparative terms.”
“According to data compiled by Georgetown’s Warshaw, the OBBBA is the second most unpopular piece of key legislation since 1990, and likely the most unpopular budget (I have to say ‘likely’ because we don’t have polls of every budget proposal) ever.”
“According to the polls, the only bill more unpopular than this year’s GOP budget bill is the 2017 Republican health care bill, which would have killed the funding mechanism for the Affordable Care Act, cut $800 billion from (basically eliminating) Medicaid, and slashed taxes on high earners.”
New Open Thread is HERE…..
Central Texas Floods.….
President Trump on Friday signed his signature tax and spending legislation, the “big beautiful bill,” into law, meeting a July 4 deadline that at times appeared out of reach
Morning….
It will be interesting to see how the Trump coalition responds to AG Bondi declaring that Epstein had no list and committed suicide.
A lot of the Joe Rogan types were really into the bullshit that Trump was all about exposing this kind of stuff.
Trump Looks to Avoid Casting Blame in Texas Flood
“When a hurricane hit North Carolina last year, Donald J. Trump claimed without evidence that the Biden administration was avoiding helping residents in Republican areas. When wildfires burned through Los Angeles earlier this year, Mr. Trump excoriated local and state Democrats for the calamity, making false assertions about water use policy,” the New York Times reports.
“But after a catastrophic flood that tore through Texas last week, leaving at least 100 dead, Mr. Trump cautioned against casting blame.”
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Local, state and federal officials are all pointing fingers in the wake of the deadly Texas flooding, but one thing is certain: The warnings weren’t heard by the people who needed them….
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Justice Warns of ‘Existential Threat to the Rule of Law’
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in her first public appearance since the Supreme Court sharply limited the ability of federal judges to check presidential power, said she believes recent rulings by the court’s conservative majority pose an “existential threat to the rule of law,” ABC News reports.
Trump just got really pissed off that a reporter asked about Epstein. He said he cannot believe people are still talking about Epstein.
Well,his base has been talking about him for many years now and are probably quite surprised that Trump now wants to shut the whole topic down…
We’ll never know?
As I said the other day the Epstein stuff really has the potential to turn the podcast bro crowd against MAGA.
I think there IS MORE to it….
No surprise…..
Federal Judges ain’t just giving up……
Meanwhile, a judge Monday issued the first known injunction against a provision of the Republicans’ reconciliation package, temporarily blocking Medicaid funding cuts to Planned Parenthood’s health centers.
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani’s lightning-fast ruling — issued without explanation and before the government responded — sparked criticism from conservatives who see it as the latest instance of judges abusing their authority….
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Talwani’s ruling is temporary; the appointee of former President Obama is set to hold a July 21 hearing and then decide on whether to issue a longer injunction….
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A conservative commentator on Tuesday asked the president’s Cabinet whether it planned to challenge the “rogue judge” who ruled for Planned Parenthood and against a provision of the law. Attorney General Pam Bondi said “absolutely.” ….
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