“Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is the cruelest and most irresponsible piece of domestic legislation to be seriously proposed in my lifetime.”

“It is a straight transfer from people who cannot afford food and medical care to people who can afford to fly first class.”

“The Big Budget Bomb” with Ezra Klein and Catherine Rampell.

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#economy #economics #budget #EzraKlein #nationaldebt#foodstamps #tariffs #podcast (68 mins)

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447?i=1000709556288

“So when you think about this bill, you should think about risk. This is a bill that increases our risk of a fiscal crisis.”

“If Trump’s #tariffs cause a #recession, this bill will have gutted the safety net millions of us would have relied on for help.”

“… it is a transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich, from the young to the old, and from the future to the past.”

[Every financial crisis since the Civil War has been caused by the GOP.]

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#budget #taxes #immigration #economy

“[Trump] is basically de-documenting people [immigrants who are here legally] to create a larger illegal population or unauthorized population by taking away legal status or various kinds of temporary legal status that people have. And he’s now saying, no, you’ve broken the law but he basically forced them to break the law by taking away their protections.”

This budget bill serves the Stephen Miller mass deportation agenda.

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#immigration #deportations #ICE #DHS #budget