ICYMI: The One Big Beautiful Budget Breakdown
Loot, Layoffs, and Legislative Gaslighting—Welcome to the OBBBocalypse.
The One Big Beautiful Budget (OBBB) has cleared the House like a drunken bull through a crystal shop. Touted as a masterstroke of MAGA efficiency, what it actually delivers is a masterclass in authoritarian accounting, where billionaires get rebates, seniors get job applications, and artificial intelligence gets more civil rights than you. Here's how Congress took a chainsaw to the federal government, wrapped it in an American flag, and called it reform.
Here’s what’s actually inside the OBBB, a bill that slashes, sells, and silences in ways even Reagan might have found gauche.
Looting in Plain Sight: The “Skinny” Budget That’s Fat with Corruption
Trump’s 2026 budget doesn’t cut fat. It harvests organs. Public programs are being gutted to fund military bloat, while Musk cronies cash in through DOGE (the Department of Government Efficiency), and the Pentagon is rewarded for failing seven audits in a row. If you’re a defense contractor, life’s never been better. If you’re a child needing lunch, get in line behind the tanks.
Starve the State, Feed the Machine: Reconciliation as Wrecking Ball
$715 billion ripped from Medicaid. SNAP cut to the marrow. Public lands auctioned like estate junk. Meanwhile, the Pentagon and ICE gorge on $850 billion in new funding. This bill doesn’t fix the budget. It detonates the concept of public goods. Even some MAGA diehards are confused. That’s how messy the grift has gotten.
Starve the State, Feed the Machine: Inside the GOP’s Budget Reconciliation Bill
The House GOP’s budget reconciliation bill, heralded by President Trump as “big and beautiful,” is neither. It’s sprawling, chaotic, and strategically devastating. With sweeping cuts to Medicaid, food assistance, and climate programs, paired with a fire sale of public lands and billions more for the Pentagon, this isn’t just a budget. It’s an attempt to…
The DOGE Codification: How a Budget Bill Made a Coup Permanent
The Senate version of the OBBB still includes the quiet killer: the legislative sanctification of DOGE’s agency-slashing spree. Forget the courts; this bill rewrites history. Jobs eliminated illegally? Programs shut down without authorization? Now, all of this is legally enshrined in a few footnotes that no one is reading. This isn’t a downsizing; it’s a premeditated erasure of the federal government.
Still Standing: The Senate, the Budget Bill, and the Disappearing Government
The One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) is now in the hands of the Senate. At 1,116 pages, it’s one of the most sweeping pieces of legislation to move this term and perhaps the most consequential. The House passed it narrowly, but without substantial revision. Despite national protests, lawsuits, and bipartisan discomfort with its scope, almost everything is …
Work Until You Die: Raising the Age, Lowering the Bar
If you’re over 50 and not rich, good luck. The OBBB raises work requirements for food and healthcare assistance to age 64. Age discrimination? Caregiving? Chronic illness? Don’t care. The GOP’s answer to economic collapse is: die later, starve sooner.
Work Until You're 64: GOP Bill Expands SNAP and Medicaid Burdens on Older Americans
The House GOP’s new budget bill includes a provision that sounds simple but carries devastating consequences: expanding work requirements for food and health benefits up to age 64.
The Parenthood Penalty: Cutting Off SNAP for Single Moms
Under OBBB, parents only qualify for caregiver exemptions if their youngest child is under 7. Got a third grader and no childcare? That’s not a child, that’s a loophole. Nearly 4 million kids could lose access to food. “Family values” has never looked so much like a food pantry eviction notice.
The Education Gulag: Caps, Cuts, and Economic Caste
OBBB caps student loans at 1980s prices, guts Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and kneecaps any effort to make college or trade school accessible to anyone who doesn’t already have a trust fund. Teachers? Doctors? Plumbers? If you weren’t born rich, better not dream big. The door’s locked and labeled “Private Access Only.”
AI, Unregulated and Unstoppable: The Gag Order on States
One more little surprise: the bill blocks states from passing any AI regulation for ten years. While DOGE integrates AI into every corner of government, this clause tells states: “You can’t stop it, you can’t monitor it, and you definitely can’t protect your citizens.” The future’s here, and it’s got a lobbyist on retainer.
This Was Never a Budget
The OBBB isn’t a budget. It’s a manifesto for corporate feudalism, a spreadsheet-shaped snuff film for public institutions. And while the Senate dithers, the looting continues. But silence is strategy, and resistance is volume. Call, scream, organize. Because if this passes, the next fiscal cliff will be your kid’s lunch tray.
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My very FIXED income doesn't allow extra to afford pay sites. Maybe if CONgress would have guaranteed COLA for Social Security recipients, as they did for themselves, financial things might be different now.
I have to live in reality.
I have absolute faith that corporate Republicans will protect the rights, freedoms, and welfare of ordinary citizens……Oh, the hell with it!! I can’t write that kind of crap with a straight face.