This appears to be the bottom line on the Big Beautiful Boondoggle and I’ll be shocked if it doesn’t pass today or tomorrow without any changes.
$3.3 trillion added to debt
$4 trillion in tax cuts
$153 billion added to defense
$150 billion added to immigration enforcement
$930 billion in cuts to medicaid
$170 billion in cuts to medicare
$85 billion in cuts to food assistance for the poor
$488 billion in cuts to clean energy credits
$10 billion for Mars
$761 million in new taxes on university endowments
$52 million in cuts to Planned Parenthood
$40 million for Trump’s National Garden of Heroes, partially funded by canceled federal grants.
None of this counts the DOGE cuts to scientific research, vital programs and the firing of federal workers.
The formula is obvious. Huge tax cuts, massive spending on defense and ICE and monumental cuts to health care, food assistance, clean energy and anything the right wing doesn’t like. These are not trade-offs since the deficit explodes anyway. It’s just a GOP wish list. If they could have completely destroyed the entire safety net they would have. But they have three years to go. Plenty of time.