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Powell and the Fed see the writing on the wall, the inflation progress will be halted when the orange clown takes office. They need to keep some interest rate ammo to try and tame the inevitable inflation that almost every economist has cautioned will happen. I can’t believe the Magats can defend this clown and his policies.
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Think it fits much better on social media, where grossly exaggerated posts being presented as “salient facts” are welcomed. As long as they confirm one’s bias, of course.
then please explain why so many in gop run states that are overwhelmingly poor vote against their own interests?
you know, those states that receive the most in social service dollars. are ranked at the bottom in most metrics be it education, health, median income, etc.....
I’m not willing to claim I know what the interests of 50 to 70 million people are, unlike your unsourced social media zinger. However, I am willing to call something out for being obtuse. Sweeping generalizations aren’t my thing, probably why I have zero interest in social media.
this is verifiable. same question. voting against interest.
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Think it fits much better on social media, where grossly exaggerated posts being presented as “salient facts” are welcomed. As long as they confirm one’s bias, of course.
then please explain why so many in gop run states that are overwhelmingly poor vote against their own interests?
you know, those states that receive the most in social service dollars. are ranked at the bottom in most metrics be it education, health, median income, etc.....
I’m not willing to claim I know what the interests of 50 to 70 million people are, unlike your unsourced social media zinger. However, I am willing to call something out for being obtuse. Sweeping generalizations aren’t my thing, probably why I have zero interest in social media.
this is verifiable. same question. voting against interest.
Wait. It’s verifiable that state poverty rates are a direct result of 50 to 70 million people voting against their interests, solely to insure that black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, have less? How is this verified? Tell me again the quote I responded to isn’t grossly exaggerated and better suited for social media.
A propensity to skew reality by way of what one over-consumes online, cannot be underestimated.
Powell and the Fed see the writing on the wall, the inflation progress will be halted when the orange clown takes office. They need to keep some interest rate ammo to try and tame the inevitable inflation that almost every economist has cautioned will happen. I can’t believe the Magats can defend this clown and his policies.
oh they will...trump will blame dems saying that he doesn't have a choice/can't fix it because they left things so bad for him and they will fall right in line
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Powell and the Fed see the writing on the wall, the inflation progress will be halted when the orange clown takes office. They need to keep some interest rate ammo to try and tame the inevitable inflation that almost every economist has cautioned will happen. I can’t believe the Magats can defend this clown and his policies.
oh they will...trump will blame dems saying that he doesn't have a choice/can't fix it because they left things so bad for him and they will fall right in line
Yup and inflation was headed in the right direction after global efforts and Trump brought them to a screeching halt with his insistence on tarrifs. If Canada retaliates with tarrifs on crude, gas prices go up and so does everything else.
Maybe now that President Musk is in power, he can walk back the tarrifs.
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I think the dems ought to leave town and let the repubs fuck their voters over. Question then becomes, who are those fucked over by repubs repub voters going to blame or hold accountable? I think I know because I see it here in this microcosm so I say, give them what they want and what the ilk of Steve O want to give them, burn it all down. All of it. Fuck ‘em. They can hug their flag, god and guns. Because that will pay the bills.
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As much as some of you are on here posting 24/7 I highly doubt many of you have an active and healthy lifestyle.........yes, you posters with over 20K comments or more.....geez
Im semi retired I walk 5 miles everyday with my 8 month old active puppy I don’t eat junk fast food I exercise 3 times a week! You haven’t a clue on what you speak of
Right on, Jose.
I'm 73 and still kicking like Kato despite having an autoimmune disorder that has nothing to do with an unhealthy life style. Quite the opposite- I have a great diet, do yoga, walk, and drink plenty of water. Odd that someone with few posts, most of which have been hit-and-run, would assume things about strangers on the internet. Amusing in a way, really, but... what's the word? Oh yeah... weird.
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Liking themselves some childhood cancer, higher than needed drug prices, deepfake porn, of course, and restricting investment in Chiiiiiiiiiiiina, which we know what. Sounds about right.
8 policies stripped from GOP bill after Trump, Musk rebellion
Research for children’s health, a crackdown on junk fees, pay hikes for lawmakers and more were jettisoned from the legislation.
The House of Representatives approved legislation Friday to keep the government funded — but it was far narrower than the package lawmakers initially considered.
The original plan negotiated between House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) and Democrats in both chambers ran more than 1,500 pages, while the legislation the House approved on Friday was just over 100 pages and dropped some policies unrelated to government spending. The legislation now heads to the Senate, where it is likely to also receive bipartisan support, although timing for passage was unclear.
President-elect Donald Trump and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk helped defeat the original bill, arguing it included government waste. Johnson’s first attempt to pass a smaller funding bill failed on Thursday, but his second attempt succeeded on Friday after he dropped a demand from Trump to suspend the debt ceiling for two years.
The Speaker did a good job here, given the circumstances. It went from a bill that weighed pounds to a bill that weighed ounces,” Musk said on X, the social media platform he owns.
Both the original measure and the one that passed kept the government operating until mid-March and devoted about $110 billion in aid to victims of natural disasters and farmers.
Brian Riedl, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative-leaning think tank, pointed out that the revised legislation wouldn’t really have saved taxpayers any money, despite the shorter page count.
Here are eight policies included in the original bill that Johnson and GOP leaders left out of the revised proposal.
One provision taken out of the initial bill was aimed at ensuring that states replenish food stamp funds for Americans who rely on the program whose benefits are stolen.
Starting in 2023, the federal government has reimbursed states that provide benefits to the victims of food stamp theft. That measure is set to expire on Friday. Since the reimbursement began, states have reported paying $150 million in benefits to more than 300,000 households, according to Dottie Rosenbaum, an expert in the program at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a center-left think tank.
The original bill called for a series of changes to the operations of pharmacy benefit managers — middlemen in the medicine business that negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies and help determine what medications are covered by insurance firms. (Dropping these provisions shaved hundreds of pages out of the legislation.)
The bill would have ended in Medicaid plans the practice of “spread pricing,” where PBMs charge a health plan more for a drug than what they pay to the pharmacies that dispense it, pocketing the difference. For Medicare plans that cover seniors, the bill required PBMs to pass along all rebates and fees that are based on a percentage of a drug price to their health plan clients, a reform commonly called “delinking” designed to eliminate incentives to promote expensive drugs over cheaper ones.
The original legislation included a provision that would transfer control of the land in Washington, D.C., where RFK Stadium sits from the federal government to the District government. That would have enabled Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) to negotiate with the Washington Commanders about a possible new stadium for the NFL team on the site near the Anacostia River, moving from their current home in Maryland. It also would let the District decide the future of the property even without a new stadium deal.
Musk on Wednesday, before the provision was dropped, recirculated a claim on X that the legislation included $3 billion for a new NFL stadium in the District. The provision, however, included no new federal funding — it even specifically banned the use of federal funds for a new stadium.
The original legislation would have allowed a 3.8 percent cost-of-living pay bump for lawmakers to take effect, which would result in a pay raise of $6,600. They make $174,000 a year now.
Musk reposted a claim that the legislation includes a “40% pay raise for Congress,” calling it “unconscionable.” He also cited an account that had said on X that the legislation would raise pay for members of Congress to $243,000, up from $174,000.
Congress has blocked all of its pay increases since 2009, adding language to spending bills each year that cancels the otherwise-automatic raises.
The original version of the spending package included two bipartisan bills that aimed to crack down on so-called “junk fees,” specifically by requiring ticket sellers and hotels to disclose any service charges and other add-ons up front to customers, rather than waiting until the end of the checkout process.
Lawmakers have been focused on ticket fees, in particular, since Ticketmaster botched early sales for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in 2022.
The revised resolution dropped the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act, which was named for a 10-year-old Virginia girl who died from an inoperable brain tumor. The legislation was signed into law by President Barack Obama, has historically drawn bipartisan support and has put about $125 million toward childhood cancer research over the past decade. The language in the now-abandoned resolution would have reauthorized the program for another seven years. The House had passed a version of it in March.
The funding for the childhood cancer research program is set to expire now, according to a spokesman for Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-Virginia), the key sponsor of the measure in the House. The bill would have included more than $170 millionover the duration of the extension.
The revised legislation also jettisoned a bipartisan provision that would have criminalized the publication of nonconsensual, intimate images, known as revenge porn, as well as sexual images and videos generated by artificial intelligence, called deepfakes.
The proposal would have also required social media sites to have policies in place to remove such imagery.
Congress was initially set to pass as part of the legislation a measure restricting U.S. investments in China, expanding existing rules currently being implemented by the Treasury Department. The legislation also would have affirmed presidential authority to impose economic sanctions on advanced technologies in China, according to the American Action Forum, a center-right think tank.
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Wait. It’s verifiable that state poverty rates are a direct result of 50 to 70 million people voting against their interests, solely to insure that black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, have less? How is this verified? Tell me again the quote I responded to isn’t grossly exaggerated and better suited for social media.
A propensity to skew reality by way of what one over-consumes online, cannot be underestimated.
The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)
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2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana; 2025: Pitt1, Pitt2
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The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)
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2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
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2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana; 2025: Pitt1, Pitt2
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8 policies stripped from GOP bill after Trump, Musk rebellion
Research for children’s health, a crackdown on junk fees, pay hikes for lawmakers and more were jettisoned from the legislation.
The House of Representatives approved legislation Friday to keep the government funded — but it was far narrower than the package lawmakers initially considered.
The original plan negotiated between House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) and Democrats in both chambers ran more than 1,500 pages, while the legislation the House approved on Friday was just over 100 pages and dropped some policies unrelated to government spending. The legislation now heads to the Senate, where it is likely to also receive bipartisan support, although timing for passage was unclear.
President-elect Donald Trump and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk helped defeat the original bill, arguing it included government waste. Johnson’s first attempt to pass a smaller funding bill failed on Thursday, but his second attempt succeeded on Friday after he dropped a demand from Trump to suspend the debt ceiling for two years.
The Speaker did a good job here, given the circumstances. It went from a bill that weighed pounds to a bill that weighed ounces,” Musk said on X, the social media platform he owns.
Both the original measure and the one that passed kept the government operating until mid-March and devoted about $110 billion in aid to victims of natural disasters and farmers.
Brian Riedl, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative-leaning think tank, pointed out that the revised legislation wouldn’t really have saved taxpayers any money, despite the shorter page count.
Here are eight policies included in the original bill that Johnson and GOP leaders left out of the revised proposal.
A fix for stolen food stamp funds
One provision taken out of the initial bill was aimed at ensuring that states replenish food stamp funds for Americans who rely on the program whose benefits are stolen.
Starting in 2023, the federal government has reimbursed states that provide benefits to the victims of food stamp theft. That measure is set to expire on Friday. Since the reimbursement began, states have reported paying $150 million in benefits to more than 300,000 households, according to Dottie Rosenbaum, an expert in the program at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a center-left think tank.
Pharmacy benefit overhaul
The original bill called for a series of changes to the operations of pharmacy benefit managers — middlemen in the medicine business that negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies and help determine what medications are covered by insurance firms. (Dropping these provisions shaved hundreds of pages out of the legislation.)
The bill would have ended in Medicaid plans the practice of “spread pricing,” where PBMs charge a health plan more for a drug than what they pay to the pharmacies that dispense it, pocketing the difference. For Medicare plans that cover seniors, the bill required PBMs to pass along all rebates and fees that are based on a percentage of a drug price to their health plan clients, a reform commonly called “delinking” designed to eliminate incentives to promote expensive drugs over cheaper ones.
RFK Stadium transfer
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The original legislation included a provision that would transfer control of the land in Washington, D.C., where RFK Stadium sits from the federal government to the District government. That would have enabled Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) to negotiate with the Washington Commanders about a possible new stadium for the NFL team on the site near the Anacostia River, moving from their current home in Maryland. It also would let the District decide the future of the property even without a new stadium deal.
Musk on Wednesday, before the provision was dropped, recirculated a claim on X that the legislation included $3 billion for a new NFL stadium in the District. The provision, however, included no new federal funding — it even specifically banned the use of federal funds for a new stadium.
Pay raises for members of Congress
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The original legislation would have allowed a 3.8 percent cost-of-living pay bump for lawmakers to take effect, which would result in a pay raise of $6,600. They make $174,000 a year now.
Musk reposted a claim that the legislation includes a “40% pay raise for Congress,” calling it “unconscionable.” He also cited an account that had said on X that the legislation would raise pay for members of Congress to $243,000, up from $174,000.
Congress has blocked all of its pay increases since 2009, adding language to spending bills each year that cancels the otherwise-automatic raises.
Targeting ‘junk fees’
The original version of the spending package included two bipartisan bills that aimed to crack down on so-called “junk fees,” specifically by requiring ticket sellers and hotels to disclose any service charges and other add-ons up front to customers, rather than waiting until the end of the checkout process.
Lawmakers have been focused on ticket fees, in particular, since Ticketmaster botched early sales for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in 2022.
Childhood cancer research
The revised resolution dropped the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act, which was named for a 10-year-old Virginia girl who died from an inoperable brain tumor. The legislation was signed into law by President Barack Obama, has historically drawn bipartisan support and has put about $125 million toward childhood cancer research over the past decade. The language in the now-abandoned resolution would have reauthorized the program for another seven years. The House had passed a version of it in March.
The funding for the childhood cancer research program is set to expire now, according to a spokesman for Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-Virginia), the key sponsor of the measure in the House. The bill would have included more than $170 millionover the duration of the extension.
Criminalizing some ‘deepfake’ images
The revised legislation also jettisoned a bipartisan provision that would have criminalized the publication of nonconsensual, intimate images, known as revenge porn, as well as sexual images and videos generated by artificial intelligence, called deepfakes.
The proposal would have also required social media sites to have policies in place to remove such imagery.
Restrictions on investment in China
Congress was initially set to pass as part of the legislation a measure restricting U.S. investments in China, expanding existing rules currently being implemented by the Treasury Department. The legislation also would have affirmed presidential authority to impose economic sanctions on advanced technologies in China, according to the American Action Forum, a center-right think tank.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/20/musk-trump-children-health-debt/
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