If you are worried about debt, there is a big beautiful bill that you should look into.
Trump 47
- Thread starter PF5
- Start date
If you are worried about debt, there is a big beautiful bill that you should look into.
Polds4OSU
Marshall
House Republicans passed a federal budget bill by a vote of 215 – 214 early Thursday morning that includes massive cuts for Medicare and Medicaid in order to extend tax breaks to billionaires. It now goes to the Senate.
www.threads.com
MeidasTouch (@meidastouch) on Threads
House Republicans passed a federal budget bill by a vote of 215 – 214 early Thursday morning that includes massive cuts for Medicare and Medicaid in order to extend tax breaks to billionaires. It now goes to the Senate.
www.threads.com
JTOSU
Ranger
Already previously posted that I dislike what is in the bill and support what Rep Chip Roy has been trying to do to fight it.
Trump is pushing Republicans to fall in line behind his agenda. Chip Roy could stand in the way | CNN Politics
As President Donald Trump attempts to muscle his agenda through the House, Rep. Chip Roy is perhaps the most important holdout to win over. He may also be the toughest.
I hold Trump to do what he says he can do.
Trump says 'I could' get Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador
President Donald Trump addressed the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in an exclusive interview with ABC News.
mugatu
Sheriff
Meink vows security as Qatar-gifted jet turned into Air Force One
Sen. Tammy Duckworth blasted the Qatari-gifted plane as a security risk and a waste of taxpayer money.
www.defensenews.com
Where is the funding for this coming from? What other operational requirements are getting cut/delayed/underfunded to pay for this jet to be converted for short-term use?
Polds4OSU
Marshall
Judge blocks Trump administration’s mass layoffs at the Education Department
Associated Press
Published 10:29 AM CDT
A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to shut down the Education Department and ordered the agency to reinstate employees who were fired in mass layoffs.
U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston granted a preliminary injunction stopping the Trump administration from carrying out two plans announced in March that sought to work toward Trump’s goal to dismantle the department. It marks a setback to one of the Republican president’s campaign promises.
The injunction was requested in a lawsuit filed by the Somerville and Easthampton school districts in Massachusetts and the American Federation of Teachers, along with other education groups.
In their lawsuit, the groups said the layoffs amounted to an illegal shutdown of the Education Department. They said it left the department unable to carry out responsibilities required by Congress, including duties to support special education, distribute financial aid and enforce civil rights laws.
In his order, Joun said the plaintiffs painted a “stark picture of the irreparable harm that will result from financial uncertainty and delay, impeded access to vital knowledge on which students and educators rely, and loss of essential services for America’s most vulnerable student populations.”
Layoffs of that scale, he added, “will likely cripple the Department.”
Joun ordered the Education Department to reinstate federal workers who were terminated as part of the March 11 layoff announcement.
The Trump administration says the layoffs are aimed at efficiency, not a department shutdown. Trump has called for the closure of the agency but recognizes it must be carried out by Congress, the government said.
The administration said restructuring the agency “may impact certain services until the reorganization is finished” but it’s committed to fulfilling its statutory requirements.
Associated Press
Published 10:29 AM CDT
A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to shut down the Education Department and ordered the agency to reinstate employees who were fired in mass layoffs.
U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston granted a preliminary injunction stopping the Trump administration from carrying out two plans announced in March that sought to work toward Trump’s goal to dismantle the department. It marks a setback to one of the Republican president’s campaign promises.
The injunction was requested in a lawsuit filed by the Somerville and Easthampton school districts in Massachusetts and the American Federation of Teachers, along with other education groups.
In their lawsuit, the groups said the layoffs amounted to an illegal shutdown of the Education Department. They said it left the department unable to carry out responsibilities required by Congress, including duties to support special education, distribute financial aid and enforce civil rights laws.
In his order, Joun said the plaintiffs painted a “stark picture of the irreparable harm that will result from financial uncertainty and delay, impeded access to vital knowledge on which students and educators rely, and loss of essential services for America’s most vulnerable student populations.”
Layoffs of that scale, he added, “will likely cripple the Department.”
Joun ordered the Education Department to reinstate federal workers who were terminated as part of the March 11 layoff announcement.
The Trump administration says the layoffs are aimed at efficiency, not a department shutdown. Trump has called for the closure of the agency but recognizes it must be carried out by Congress, the government said.
The administration said restructuring the agency “may impact certain services until the reorganization is finished” but it’s committed to fulfilling its statutory requirements.
Polds4OSU
Marshall
House Bill Could Permanently End Personal Exemptions and Work Expense Deductions
Your tax filing could look dramatically different after 2025 if new legislation passes. The bill would maintain lower tax rates but permanently eliminate personal exemptions and restrict mortgage interest deductions
Link
So we gain vehicle intrest but lose mortgage intrest?
That seems to penalize people who buy vehicles with cash. Im guessing it would hurt the wealthy slightly (dude with $50 mil in the bank isn't taking a car loan) but Im not sure what it would do to the middle class.
Personally Im looking to move in the next year or two so Im not a fan.
mugatu
Sheriff
'Hidden' provision in Trump's big bill could disarm US Supreme Court
The provision would bar courts from enforcing contempt citations for violations of injunctions or temporary restraining orders unless a bond has been paid.
www.newsweek.com
Big Beautiful Bill has provision to prevent courts from enforcing rulings.
"No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued," the provision in the bill, which is more than 1,000 pages long, says.
The provision "would make most existing injunctions—in antitrust cases, police reform cases, school desegregation cases, and others—unenforceable," Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the University of California Berkeley School of Law, told Newsweek. "It serves no purpose but to weaken the power of the federal courts."
The provision would prohibit courts from enforcing contempt citations for violations of injunctions or temporary restraining orders—the main types of rulings that have been used to rein in President Donald Trump's administration—unless the plaintiffs have paid a bond, something that rarely happens when someone sues the government.
If enacted, it would be a "stunning" restriction on the power of federal courts, Chemerinsky wrote in an article for Just Security.
"The Supreme Court has long recognized that the contempt power is integral to the authority of the federal courts," he wrote. "Without the ability to enforce judicial orders, they are rendered mere advisory opinions which parties are free to disregard."
Edit to add.
@CowboyJD is this constitutional? I would think not but haven't been at a Holiday Inn in a long time and could be wrong.
Last edited:
Polds4OSU
Marshall
JUST IN: The Trump administration said Thursday it has barred Harvard from allowing international students to enroll at the university
.
A letter sent by Department of Homeland Security to Harvard from Secretary Kristi Noem said the administration was revoking the school's Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification.
The move marks an escalation in the administration's fight against the college.
Read more: https://abcnews.visitlink.me/UCwYWF
.
A letter sent by Department of Homeland Security to Harvard from Secretary Kristi Noem said the administration was revoking the school's Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification.
The move marks an escalation in the administration's fight against the college.
Read more: https://abcnews.visitlink.me/UCwYWF
Polds4OSU
Marshall
Harvard responds to Trump administration saying they are baring Harvard from enrolling international students
Harvard said the move by the Trump administration is not legal.
"The government's action is unlawful. We are fully committed to maintaining Harvard's ability to host our international students and scholars, who hail from more than 140 countries and enrich the University – and this nation – immeasurably. We are working quickly to provide guidance and support to members of our community," the school said in a statement on Thursday. "This retaliatory action threatens serious harm to the Harvard community and our country, and undermines Harvard's academic and research mission."
MIT has a 24B endowment and costs 85K a year up from 33K in 2001 according to google AI. They have raised costs 6% a year on their own while amassing 24B. They aren’t cutting grad courses by 8% due to budget.
If they have a defense department deal to create a super laser great…..otherwise private schools shouldn’t get a dime, particularly when they have a decade of cost on hand. That goes for them Tulsa, Liberty, Harvard, SMU, Baylor all of them.
Polds4OSU
Marshall
They are forward thinking about that big shiny new Tax Bill the House just passed and RFK Jr made sure they lost NIH Funding.
President Donald Trump has slashed funding and reimbursements made through the National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies, key sources of support for research-oriented universities like MIT. The school also faces significantly steeper taxes on its endowment under legislation that passed the US House of Representatives.
MIT has already taken steps to cut costs, including freezing hiring. Now, in anticipation of a decrease in federal grants, the university plans to enroll about 100 fewer graduate students in its research programs for the 2025 school year, an 8% decline from the academic year that’s just wrapping up, MIT
PF5
Sheriff
Fact-checking Donald Trump's Oval Office confrontation with Cyril Ramaphosa
President Trump made a series of claims about the killing of white farmers in South Africa, some of which are demonstrably false.
www.bbc.com
Polds4OSU
Marshall
Chief Economist of the right-leaning think tank American Compass calls Megabill ‘Death March’: Rips the GOP plan
The MAGA movement’s top economic guru is not happy about the GOP’s “big, beautiful” domestic policy bill passed by the House early Thursday.
“I liken it to a death march through a series of choices that nobody really wanted to be making,” said Oren Cass, the chief economist of the right-leaning think tank American Compass and a leading proponent of conservative economic populism among allies of Donald Trump.
In an interview with POLITICO Magazine, Cass said there are a handful provisions in the bill that appeal to those trying to move away from Republican economic orthodoxy. But on the whole, he said, the bill is a messy hodge-podge of conventional conservative priorities that won’t do much to help Trump’s working-class constituencies or the broader public. The centerpiece of the legislation is an extension of the 2017 Trump tax cuts, and it will significantly increase the federal deficit even as it includes deep cuts to Medicaid and food stamp programs for low-income Americans.
“[It’s] not something that has an especially coherent logic to it or much prospect of actually accomplishing the things that I think people want,” Cass said.
The MAGA movement’s top economic guru is not happy about the GOP’s “big, beautiful” domestic policy bill passed by the House early Thursday.
“I liken it to a death march through a series of choices that nobody really wanted to be making,” said Oren Cass, the chief economist of the right-leaning think tank American Compass and a leading proponent of conservative economic populism among allies of Donald Trump.
In an interview with POLITICO Magazine, Cass said there are a handful provisions in the bill that appeal to those trying to move away from Republican economic orthodoxy. But on the whole, he said, the bill is a messy hodge-podge of conventional conservative priorities that won’t do much to help Trump’s working-class constituencies or the broader public. The centerpiece of the legislation is an extension of the 2017 Trump tax cuts, and it will significantly increase the federal deficit even as it includes deep cuts to Medicaid and food stamp programs for low-income Americans.
“[It’s] not something that has an especially coherent logic to it or much prospect of actually accomplishing the things that I think people want,” Cass said.
They have 24B dollars on hand. If they are worried about taxes on it…..use some of it for educating people. The entire state of mass spends 16B a year on education. MIT has 12K students…..they have 2M per student.
They have 6700 full time admin/support staff.
We are 37T in debt. We shouldn’t send a cent to private schools with 2M/student on hand. And a little over a half an admin per student.
After taxes will they have to slum it with 1.5M iper student?
Try again.
Last edited:
Similar threads
