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Dulcinea

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Thu May 22, 2025, 08:09 AM Yesterday

Trump's big tax bill has passed the House. Here's what's inside it

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans early Thursday took a major step forward on President Donald Trump’s agenda, approving a legislative package that combines tax breaks, spending cuts, border security funding and other priorities.

House committees labored for months on the bill, which underwent late changes to win over holdouts in the Republican conference. It exceeds 1,000 pages and is titled the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” a nod to Trump himself.

Republicans made one last round of revisions before the bill reached the House floor, boosting the state and local tax deduction to win over centrists and speeding up the work requirements in Medicaid to win over those who didn’t believe the bill did enough to curb spending.

Here’s a look at what’s in the legislative package, which is expected to undergo more changes when it goes to the Senate.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tax-breaks-bill-medicaid-80b5781377bcd0870a1dccb3c7b8dc05

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Trump's big tax bill has passed the House. Here's what's inside it (Original Post) Dulcinea Yesterday OP
It's Krasnov's Big Death Bill. gab13by13 Yesterday #1
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gab13by13

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1. It's Krasnov's Big Death Bill.
Thu May 22, 2025, 08:23 AM
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The top 10 richest Americans made 356 billion dollars last year. Take the average American who made 50,000 dollars last year and it will take them 176,000 years to make what the top 10 richest made in 1 year, and we are going to give them more money.

This Death bill is the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in our nation's history, including the Great Depression. Yet the American people were never told this, they don't have a clue what's coming their way - DEATH.

Congressional Democrats are horrible at messaging. They should have held town halls like the MSNBC town hall where actual federal workers who were fired told their stories. Have people on Medicaid, SNAP, Medicare tell their stories.

There is still a tiny bit of time but the end is near.

As I started posting in 2021 - Time Matters.

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