While everyone was talking about taxes and Medicaid cuts. around midnight MAGA snuck in provisions to cut funding for enforcing contempt of court violations and district courts’ ability to issue judgements with national effect. Add in Trumps’sunlimited ability to pardon, a cowardly Congress and what guard rails are left? Not the filibuster which is about to go the way of the dodo as MAGA ignores the Senate Parliamentarian.
What guardrails?
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Curious….the district judge on the case will be the one to issue the contempt citation. Usually resulting in a fine or brief jail time. What aspect of these orders and enforcement are being cut off?
Aren't you supposed to be busy being livid that your caucus just voted to substantially increase the deficit and did nothing to actually tackle rising debt servicing costs? Certainly would have been if Democrats did the same thing.
Did you miss in the other thread where I called out the increase in the deficit and discussed the dire situation we’re facing regarding debt service costs ? I’ll say it again…any bill which increases the deficit is not only a bad bill but a fiscal disaster. We don’t have the luxury of time. Our debt will continue to grow. Neither party has any interest in fiscal responsibility. It’s only a matter of time until our house of cars come crashing down.
Now back to my question regarding contempt citations .
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Remember back during the election season when I told you that a split government where the parties couldn’t do anything stupid was preferable to handing all of the government to people who don’t know (or don’t care about) what they’re doing because they would inevitable do something stupid?
Instead of digesting that, we were busy giving Trump the benefit of the doubt that he “knew nothing about project 2025” despite it being written by his entire previous administration staff.
The amount of societal damage done by this administration in 5 months has been more than any in US history… barring maybe Buchanan.
The neither party obfuscation is tiresome. Dems try to address the income side. Even Biden did but that’s the Republican red line. This budget bill is a disaster as all it does is borrow money to give to the wealthy and cut the safety net for the poor while undermining the US dollar. And weakening the judiciary while it is at it.
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Oh don’t forget it screws over clean energy and will raise electricity prices to support unproven nuclear technology.
Study of modular nuclear power plants is just as valuable to study and do research on as a lot of other studies of renewable power. Don't throw monikers around because it makes your point feel more valid.
Don't pretend like your party is all on top of reducing debt either from the income or the spending side. Both parties share the blame.
Somewhat agree but keep in mind that the last balanced budget was Clinton 2000 followed immediately by Dubya tax cut and deficits. Last proposed income tax increase was Biden. Obama and Biden tax increases were due to financial collapse handed off by Bush and Trump mishandling Covid. More importantly was use of money. Trumps tax cuts are to redistribute wealth from the poorest to the richest, just as this newest bill does. Biden ‘sinfrastructure bill was for productive investments and the poorest. Debt can be valuable but has to be used productively, like research , infrastructure or healthcare. This budget cuts productive investments
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Bravo to Clinton on balancing the budget, but he had the dot com bubble to thank for assistance. Who did it before Clinton? Nixon in '69. We can't go 25 or 30 years in between. You can blame something in the economy on the last president and the mess he made with his decisions for just about any administration. Of course the Democrats want to increase taxes, they are for big government. When have they cut expenses. Just about never. And the Democrats increasing taxes is about them wanting to provide more services more than them balancing the budget. There is no party here that can legitimately say they aren't equally to blame as the other party.
I didn’t say it wasn’t valuable, I said it’s not proven. All this is, is a shell game. Trump’s backers have investment in Uranium mining and SNR startups and they want to see money directed to them.
I think you kind of need to have a test case that succeeds before you dump your whole national effort behind such an endeavor.
Moreover… I still don’t trust the safety of SNR yet. The volume of the fissile material isn’t really the issue… I don’t trust the engineering methods of the companies investing in the space. GE Veronova for instance (who’s stock was saved by entry into the space) has a bad tendency to make some poorly designed systems / products. That doesn’t matter too much in the grand scheme of things when it’s a wind turbine or a steam turbine…. When it’s a nuclear reactor… it matters a whole hell of a lot.
They say that the game changer will be making the reactors modular…. But in reality modularity often means more opportunity for mass produced defects due to poor manufacturing processes rather than an intricately designed, incredibly detailed generation system. Essentially the difference between a Veyron and a Kia.
The first recalls / TILS put out on SNR units are going to be interesting.
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Look at federal spending over the last 20 years. Trying to solve our fiscal problem solely on the revenue side is foolhardy. I don’t understand how anyone can look at the rapid growth in spending and argue there’s a fix in the revenue side only. Biden could have easily tried to address the expenditure side via EOs the same way he attempted to add expenditures. All as we were running a $2T a year deficit. He failed. It will take both and the Dems won’t touch expenditures. Pubs tax increases. Our kids are screwed. We have a bunch of irresponsible adults running this country and have for years. Doesn’t matter which party is in charge the result of late is the same…deficits.
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