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The so -called “Big Beautiful Bill” – Donald Trumps and the Republicans extensive law package that lowers taxes for rich, which massively expands immigration raids and arrests of the government and destroys green energy initiatives, While millions of Americans are pushing out of the health system and other social services – is now law.
Trump stages signing with military aviators and marching music
The President signed the devastating legislative package in a ceremony for independence day in the White House.
A series of accompanists dressed in front waited that President Trump held his speech, while the most kitschy parademe music sounded that could be imagined. When Donald and Melania Trump finally stepped onto a balcony to give the president’s speech, there was a long, embarrassing silence before the national anthem “The Star Spangled Banner” was drowned out by a loud overflight from the military. Trump had previously announced: “We will have B-2S and F-22S and F-35S that fly directly over the White House … So we will sign while these beautiful aircraft fly directly above us.”
Then Trump made a number of hyperbolic claims and claimed to have carried out the “most successful military strike in history, Operation Midnight Hammer”, as well as an alleged number of records for the military. He also claimed that “jobs” and the “stock market” were on the rise. In his excessive statements, Trump reviewed his election victory and tried to pull over ex-President Joe Biden before finally devoting himself to the actual law.
Republicans bow to Trump – despite enormous deficit costs
“It is the most popular law that has ever been signed in the history of our country,” he said. “No matter whether military or someone else – that’s the most popular law ever.” However, various current surveys contradict this statement.
The Republicans in the congress passed the law on Thursday after months of internal quarrels. Several party members felt visibly uncomfortable with the expected $ 4 trillion in additional budget deficit. Others, such as Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Public criticized criticism of the cuts at Medicaid, but ultimately bent. In the end, the Republicans did not stay true to the country, their voters or human decency – but only Trump. As the spokesman for the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson (R-La.), Pastened to reporters: “We have to give up all of our personal preferences.”
Health cuts meet millions – “people will die”
The law signed on Friday is actually unpopular in the American public – for good reason. It will delete over $ 1 trillion from Medicaid, and the impartial congressional budget office predicts that the cuts together with changes to individual health insurance plans will lead to around 17 million people lose their insurance cover. Medicaid’s cuts will also have devastating effects on rural hospitals, nursing homes and more.
Opposition leader Hakeem Jeffries (DN.Y.) stuck in an hourly speech before the law was adopted against the cuts. And told stories of Americans who will lose their medical protection due to the law. “People will die,” he said. And referred to the plenary hall of the House of Representatives, in which the law was passed shortly afterwards, as a “crime scene”. Trump made fun of Jeffries in his speech. “Did you see the guy yesterday. How he was standing for hours. I had no idea why he was there at all,” he said. And mocked democratic resistance to the law as “fraud”. “He had a towel. Has wiped his face. Not very elegant.”
Environment, social assistance, tax justice – everything on the retreat
The law also reverses a large number of environmental policy measures by the bidea era. Which represents a catastrophic setback in the fight against environmental polluters. It pumps even more money into the already bloated budget of the Pentagon. It leads tens of billions of dollars to the immigration and customs authority ICE to implement the increasingly cruel deportation policy of the Trump government. And it drastically shortens state food aid. It grants tax reliefs for rich and corporations, while the poorest Americans have to pay more.
As Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Recently wrote about the law: “We experience oligarchy in real time.”
Trump celebrates the law – “Golden Age of America”
Trump, the oligarch-in-chief, broke all week with the adoption of his law on his law and wrote on Thursday that the “USA the ‘hottest’ country in the world, by far !!!” be. Of course, he continued to praise the law when he signed it in the White House on Friday.
“The golden age of America has broken down,” said Trump. “It will be a time that this country, I think, has never experienced.”