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Legislation Abomination

4 min readJul 4, 2025

Congressional republicans have done their job.

They can go home now and never set foot in the Capitol again.

Why would they? They were sent to Washington to do one job and one job only: slash taxes on the morbidly rich — again.

Yesterday — without a single Democratic vote — the republican congressional majority delivered on its promise to the pretend president to have his “Big Beautiful Bill” (its actual name) on his desk by today.

How bad could it be?

  • The now-law accomplishes the largest legalized transfer of wealth and creates the most significant debt increase in U.S. history.
  • It takes money from 90% of Americans like you and me who need it and hands it to the richest one percent who don’t.
  • It strips 11 million people of their health insurance, causing 16 million Americans to lose their healthcare.
  • Thousands of senior citizens will lose access to nursing home care.
  • Millions of children will go hungry due to food assistance funding cuts.

Greater New York Hospital Association President Kenneth Raske explained:

It is hard to identify a bill over the last few decades that does more damage to the American health care system than the Senate…

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