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HuffPost: Gun Silencers, Tanning Beds And Other Weird Stuff Tucked Into The GOP's Tax Bill
HuffPost - Gun Silencers, Tanning Beds And Other Weird Stuff Tucked Into The GOP's Tax Bill
“There are certain elected officials who appear to have a certain orange hue about them," one Democrat scoffed at a tanning provision later stripped from the bill.
Jennifer Bendery
May 22, 2025, 03:41 PM EDT
WASHINGTON – When House Republicans passed President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy package in the wee hours of Thursday, they didn’t just approve giving trillions of dollars in tax cuts to rich people while kicking down millions of poor people.
They made it easier to get gun silencers. And quietly removed a weird provision about tanning beds. And expanded a ban on gender-affirming care. And, in a show of fealty to the president, they came up with a new name for tax-saving accounts that the government would seed with $1,000 for babies born in the next few years: “Trump Accounts.”
There was already a lot going on in the GOP’s 1,100-page bill, which is actually called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. But things got confusing late Wednesday when Republicans unveiled a 42-page amendment with all kinds of eleventh-hour changes. They released their new language as the House Rules Committee was entering its 20th hour of a hearing on the bill, and Democrats barely had time to make sense of all the changes.
They’re a lot clearer now. Here are some of the weird and last-minute things Republicans slipped into their bill, which is now headed to the Senate and already hitting a wall over there.
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“There are certain elected officials who appear to have a certain orange hue about them," one Democrat scoffed at a tanning provision later stripped from the bill.
Jennifer Bendery
May 22, 2025, 03:41 PM EDT
WASHINGTON – When House Republicans passed President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy package in the wee hours of Thursday, they didn’t just approve giving trillions of dollars in tax cuts to rich people while kicking down millions of poor people.
They made it easier to get gun silencers. And quietly removed a weird provision about tanning beds. And expanded a ban on gender-affirming care. And, in a show of fealty to the president, they came up with a new name for tax-saving accounts that the government would seed with $1,000 for babies born in the next few years: “Trump Accounts.”
There was already a lot going on in the GOP’s 1,100-page bill, which is actually called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. But things got confusing late Wednesday when Republicans unveiled a 42-page amendment with all kinds of eleventh-hour changes. They released their new language as the House Rules Committee was entering its 20th hour of a hearing on the bill, and Democrats barely had time to make sense of all the changes.
They’re a lot clearer now. Here are some of the weird and last-minute things Republicans slipped into their bill, which is now headed to the Senate and already hitting a wall over there.
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