Republicans look for reset on Trump's 'big, beautiful bill'

[Dulcinea]

(The Hill) Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is looking for a reset and to build momentum on President Trump’s big, beautiful bill after it struggled through a tough week on Capitol Hill.

Trump’s July 4 deadline for signing the bill is slipping away as GOP senators battle one another over spending cuts and other issues in the House-passed bill. But Thune wants to get the legislation back on track by convening small working groups to hash out key components of the bill, according to Republicans familiar with his plan.

Thune is hoping to build enough momentum in the Senate’s various committees that the components of the bill come together in a grand compromise by the end of the month.

But rank-and-file senators who have some of the strongest objections to the legislation have yet to see key pieces of text. And Elon Musk’s scathing criticism of the bill as a “mountain of disgusting pork” is creating political headwinds for the legislation.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-look-reset-trump-big-100000407.html

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Maybe

the rich and corporations should pay their fair share to reduce the deficit. They already own mountains of real estate and financial assets from the economic system.

[homegirl]

3. NO

MAYBE ABOUT IT. A RETURN TO EVEN HALF OF THE EISENHOWER TAX RATE (90%) FOR STARTERS. GET THAT CRUSHING DEBT OFF THE BACKS OF THE REAL PEOPLE!

[Grins]

4. Agree. Been saying it for years

You want the deficit/debt down? There is ONLY ONE WAY to do that - raise taxes!!!

The “Tax Cuts Pay For Themselves,” and ‘trickle down,” and “supply-side economics” gimmickry has been proven, since 1981, to be a lie. A lie for the sole purpose of letting the few pay less in taxes.

We don’t have a spending problem - we have a revenue problem.

Paraphrasing someone once wrote of the top tax rate: “If 68% was good enough for Reagan, it should be good enough for you.”

[tanyev]

2. Of course Trump and his toadies call it the big beautiful bill.

But why is the media calling it that?

[Dulcinea]

6. Is that its official name?

I wouldn't be surprised if the Fascist Felon named it that.

[jmowreader]

8. It is

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1/text

HR 1 is titled "One Big Beautiful Bill Act."

[louis-t]

5. It's not cruel enough for the repigs.

[mdbl]

7. The senate needs to pick that shit apart

and send it back asking the House to show more deference to all of their constituents and not just the to .5%

[Nonnia Bisnez]

9. I hope the Senate votes for the low sodium version.

Blue state Republican representative won't like that.