Trump’s “One Big 💩 Bill” is Project 2025 in legislative form. Here’s how it quietly turns a far-right wishlist into federal law: - Sec. 10008 - Expands work requirements for SNAP - Project 2025: Pushes “moral reform” to make low-income people work more for food assistance. - Sec. 10011 - Repeals education & obesity prevention grants - Project 2025: Eliminates “social engineering” and funnels funding into “traditional values” education. - Sec. 10012 - Restricts immigrant access to SNAP - Project 2025: Blocks aid to undocumented and many legal immigrants. - Sec. 110115 - Creates “Trump Accounts” and a Trump savings pilot program - Project 2025: Promotes private savings plans tied to “American values” and market-based welfare. - Sec. 44125 - Bans federal Medicaid/CHIP funding for gender transition procedures for minors - Project 2025: Calls for a nationwide ban on federal support for gender-affirming care. - Sec. 44141 - Requires states to impose Medicaid work requirements - Project 2025: Promotes work mandates for benefits under the guise of personal responsibility. - Sec. 44110 - Cuts off Medicaid/CHIP for those without verified legal status - Project 2025: Strips access to healthcare for undocumented immigrants and narrows eligibility for others. - Sec. 20001 - Military expansion for “quality of life” and Indo-Pacific readiness - Project 2025: Backs massive defense buildup, especially near China and the southern border. Dozens of sections quietly restructure the federal government to match the far-right’s long-term goals: Guts environmental protections - Sec. 42108 - Repeals Clean Air Act provisions used to limit emissions - Sec. 42117 - Eliminates environmental and climate justice block grants - Sec. 42301 - Strips EPA authority to enforce vehicle emissions standards - Sec. 41009 - Rescinds funds from national parks, conservation, and climate programs - Secs. 80307-80309 - Rescind National Park Service (NPS) funds provided under the Inflation Reduction Act: - Sec. 80307: Cancels unobligated balances from Section 50221 (BLM and NPS resilience & restoration) - Sec. 80308: Cancels funds from Section 50222 (ecosystem protection and climate adaptation) - Sec. 80309: Cancels funds from Section 50223 (historic preservation and legacy infrastructure) - Project 2025: Seeks to eliminate conservation efforts and open public lands for extraction and development. - Sec. 80301-80309 - Blocks federal land conservation plans; rescinds NPS/BLM funds - Sec. 80151-80152 - Charges protest fees and kills environmental data programs
continuing... - Project 2025: Calls for dismantling the EPA and environmental oversight to unleash fossil fuel production. Centralizes power in the executive - Sec. 30051 - Blocks agencies from issuing new rules without meeting strict cost-benefit standards - Sec. 30061 - Prohibits the Secretary of Education from proposing new regulations - Project 2025: Places all federal agencies under direct presidential control. Weakens federal worker protections - Sec. 90004 - Allows new federal hires to be fired at will-reviving “Schedule F” - Sec. 90005 - Increases pension contributions for federal workers - Sec. 90006 - Eliminates early retirement supplements - Project 2025: Aims to purge and replace career civil servants with political loyalists. Limits state authority - Sec. 44001 - Preempts state and local governments from regulating artificial intelligence for 10 years - Project 2025: Centralizes federal power to override states on tech, education, and energy policy. Defunds watchdogs and public interest enforcement - Sec. 50003 - Guts the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) - Sec. 50002 - Cuts enforcement powers from oversight bodies like the PCAOB - Project 2025: Labels oversight and regulation as “deep state overreach.” More buried provisions with Project 2025 fingerprints: - Sec. 41008 - Creates a “De-Risking Fund” to protect fossil fuel companies from court orders or regulation - Project 2025: Seeks to shield oil and gas interests from legal and environmental challenges. - Sec. 44122 - Limits retroactive Medicaid coverage - Project 2025: Reduces healthcare access by tightening eligibility windows. - Sec. 44131 - Ends extra funding for states that expand Medicaid - Project 2025: Actively seeks to roll back Medicaid expansion entirely. - Sec. 80121(h) - Strips courts of jurisdiction to review federal permits and approvals - Project 2025: Removes judicial oversight over mining, drilling, leasing, and environmental enforcement, effectively silencing the courts. This isn’t just another bill. It’s the Project 2025 playbook written into law. This bill abuses budget reconciliation rules to jam through non-budget items: education rollbacks, environmental deregulation, and civil service purges.
What I am most concerned about (and there are numerous large concerns) is Congress limiting the authority of federal judges to hold US Gov't officials in contempt of court...and it would be retroactive.
From Heather Cox Richardson: “ The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says the bill cuts at least $715 billion in healthcare spending, mostly from Medicaid, and $300 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, causing more than 2.7 million American households to lose benefits. Because the massive debt increase in the measure triggers a 2010 law requiring offsets, it will cut Medicare, as well, by an estimated $500 billion.”
CAN Congress limit the authority of federal courts? I am no lawyer or expert on the Constitution, but I think courts will have somethig to say about this.
Yeah, we got a few inches of snow on the mountaintops, but they haven't emerged from the clouds yet. Nothing here in the valley, though. We are sure looking forward to sun and 70's early in the coming week!!
I’m looking forward to eating at the Holy Grail Irish Restaurant and Pub in NH tomorrow evening. The Irish owners renovated a former Catholic Church, but kept the stained glass windows, lamps with crosses on them, and other artifacts from the church, to retain its history. Not a bad use of the building, given that the Church had to give up some of the churches awhile back. (2008 in this case.) Check out the Photos, Story and MENU! Wow!
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ReplyDeleteTrump’s “One Big 💩 Bill” is Project 2025 in legislative form. Here’s how it quietly turns a far-right wishlist into federal law:
- Sec. 10008 - Expands work requirements for SNAP
- Project 2025: Pushes “moral reform” to make low-income people work more for food assistance.
- Sec. 10011 - Repeals education & obesity prevention grants
- Project 2025: Eliminates “social engineering” and funnels funding into “traditional values” education.
- Sec. 10012 - Restricts immigrant access to SNAP
- Project 2025: Blocks aid to undocumented and many legal immigrants.
- Sec. 110115 - Creates “Trump Accounts” and a Trump savings pilot program
- Project 2025: Promotes private savings plans tied to “American values” and market-based welfare.
- Sec. 44125 - Bans federal Medicaid/CHIP funding for gender transition procedures for minors
- Project 2025: Calls for a nationwide ban on federal support for gender-affirming care.
- Sec. 44141 - Requires states to impose Medicaid work requirements
- Project 2025: Promotes work mandates for benefits under the guise of personal responsibility.
- Sec. 44110 - Cuts off Medicaid/CHIP for those without verified legal status
- Project 2025: Strips access to healthcare for undocumented immigrants and narrows eligibility for others.
- Sec. 20001 - Military expansion for “quality of life” and Indo-Pacific readiness
- Project 2025: Backs massive defense buildup, especially near China and the southern border.
Dozens of sections quietly restructure the federal government to match the far-right’s long-term goals:
Guts environmental protections
- Sec. 42108 - Repeals Clean Air Act provisions used to limit emissions
- Sec. 42117 - Eliminates environmental and climate justice block grants
- Sec. 42301 - Strips EPA authority to enforce vehicle emissions standards
- Sec. 41009 - Rescinds funds from national parks, conservation, and climate programs
- Secs. 80307-80309 - Rescind National Park Service (NPS) funds provided under the Inflation Reduction Act:
- Sec. 80307: Cancels unobligated balances from Section 50221 (BLM and NPS resilience & restoration)
- Sec. 80308: Cancels funds from Section 50222 (ecosystem protection and climate adaptation)
- Sec. 80309: Cancels funds from Section 50223 (historic preservation and legacy infrastructure)
- Project 2025: Seeks to eliminate conservation efforts and open public lands for extraction and development.
- Sec. 80301-80309 - Blocks federal land conservation plans; rescinds NPS/BLM funds
- Sec. 80151-80152 - Charges protest fees and kills environmental data programs
continuing...
Delete- Project 2025: Calls for dismantling the EPA and environmental oversight to unleash fossil fuel production.
Centralizes power in the executive
- Sec. 30051 - Blocks agencies from issuing new rules without meeting strict cost-benefit standards
- Sec. 30061 - Prohibits the Secretary of Education from proposing new regulations
- Project 2025: Places all federal agencies under direct presidential control.
Weakens federal worker protections
- Sec. 90004 - Allows new federal hires to be fired at will-reviving “Schedule F”
- Sec. 90005 - Increases pension contributions for federal workers
- Sec. 90006 - Eliminates early retirement supplements
- Project 2025: Aims to purge and replace career civil servants with political loyalists.
Limits state authority
- Sec. 44001 - Preempts state and local governments from regulating artificial intelligence for 10 years
- Project 2025: Centralizes federal power to override states on tech, education, and energy policy.
Defunds watchdogs and public interest enforcement
- Sec. 50003 - Guts the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
- Sec. 50002 - Cuts enforcement powers from oversight bodies like the PCAOB
- Project 2025: Labels oversight and regulation as “deep state overreach.”
More buried provisions with Project 2025 fingerprints:
- Sec. 41008 - Creates a “De-Risking Fund” to protect fossil fuel companies from court orders or regulation
- Project 2025: Seeks to shield oil and gas interests from legal and environmental challenges.
- Sec. 44122 - Limits retroactive Medicaid coverage
- Project 2025: Reduces healthcare access by tightening eligibility windows.
- Sec. 44131 - Ends extra funding for states that expand Medicaid
- Project 2025: Actively seeks to roll back Medicaid expansion entirely.
- Sec. 80121(h) - Strips courts of jurisdiction to review federal permits and approvals
- Project 2025: Removes judicial oversight over mining, drilling, leasing, and environmental enforcement, effectively silencing the courts.
This isn’t just another bill. It’s the Project 2025 playbook written into law. This bill abuses budget reconciliation rules to jam through non-budget items: education rollbacks, environmental deregulation, and civil service purges.
What I am most concerned about (and there are numerous large concerns) is Congress limiting the authority of federal judges to hold US Gov't officials in contempt of court...and it would be retroactive.
DeleteFrom Heather Cox Richardson:
Delete“ The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says the bill cuts at least $715 billion in healthcare spending, mostly from Medicaid, and $300 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, causing more than 2.7 million American households to lose benefits. Because the massive debt increase in the measure triggers a 2010 law requiring offsets, it will cut Medicare, as well, by an estimated $500 billion.”
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CAN Congress limit the authority of federal courts? I am no lawyer or expert on the Constitution, but I think courts will have somethig to say about this.
DeleteMan in Norway wakes to find huge container ship in garden
ReplyDeleteRan aground under power! Yikes!
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Missed the guy's house by 15ft!
DeleteHarvard sues Trump administration to halt federal ban on enrolling international students
ReplyDeleteWell, the internet has become so toxic that I'm getting a lot more housework done! ~Susan
ReplyDeleteThat's a brave butterfly. I hear Vermont had snow today.
ReplyDeleteYeah, we got a few inches of snow on the mountaintops, but they haven't emerged from the clouds yet. Nothing here in the valley, though. We are sure looking forward to sun and 70's early in the coming week!!
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Great outfit! And, my oh my, I had no idear that Kermit is 70 years old! (Born same year as WIl and myself! Wow!)
DeleteI’m looking forward to eating at the Holy Grail Irish Restaurant and Pub in NH tomorrow evening. The Irish owners renovated a former Catholic Church, but kept the stained glass windows, lamps with crosses on them, and other artifacts from the church, to retain its history. Not a bad use of the building, given that the Church had to give up some of the churches awhile back. (2008 in this case.)
ReplyDeleteCheck out the Photos, Story and MENU! Wow!
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NH governor signs immigration enforcement measures
ReplyDeleteFour Supreme Court Justices went to Harvard
ReplyDeleteRoberts, Jackson, Gorsuch, Kagan
Four Supreme Court Justices went to Yale.
Thomas, Alito, Sotomayor, Kavanaugh
One Supreme Court Justice went to Notre Dame.
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Federal judge blocks Trump administration decision to bar foreign student enrollment at Harvard
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