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FINALLY, after the Senate managed to eke it out yesterday (thanks to a couple of needed tie-breaking votes from VP Vance along the way, in order to overcome the nay votes of the usual suspects, McConnell, Collins, and Murkowski), the House squeezed it out shortly after midnight this morning, on a 216 - 213 vote (2 nay R votes: Turner (OH) and Fitzpatrick (PA)). PBS, NPR, and USAID hardest hit.
Onward and upward!
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In my universe that is a LOT of money and very worthy targets.
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From a purely fiscal point of view, this 9 billion (60 bucks per citizen) is good news to me, a guy who always looks on the bright side!
Now, a Negative Nancy would say “Musk promised to reduce the annual burden of Federal spending on American citizens by $14,000 each. But he only reduced it by $60.”
But your positive thinker says, “given how hard the big spenders in Congress fought against this insignificant amount of relief—the price of a meal for a family of four at a burger joint—imagine how much they would have fought against an amount that made any practical difference. We should be happy!”
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In our universe it is, too. There are only two of us now, so $60 is TWO meals at McDonald’s.
The $14,000 per American that they promised us is something I simply don’t think about. That would just be negativity, and I always accentuate the positive.
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It is not much, but it is something. The government has not exercised this fiscal restraint muscle in a long time. Hopefully this is the start to moving to toward fiscal sanity and political bravery.
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In a just or fair or methodical world there would also be ripple impact from eliminating programs which in the past have generated other, not identified nor specifically cancelled, programs. If Scam A no longer has authorization, surely that means it’s not possible to authorize $ for Scams B,C or D. And there should be a calculable benefit from the interest not incurred on the debt not incurred on the spending not executed.
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