“…The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command…” – George Orwell, 1984

“…Incredible how fast a washed-up local morning show anchor can go from fluff pieces to fascist cosplay. Supporting the deportation of American citizens with no due process, cozying up to dictators, touting Christianity while cutting government assistance. Sounds less like patriotism and more like selling out America one “Faux News” soundbite at a time. Truly soulless…”

Add trillions of dollars to the national debt, ensure massive tax breaks for the 1%, punish the poor, cut access to health care for millions – what’s not to like for right wingnuts?

The vote:

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 145
HR 1 YEA-AND-NAY 22-May-2025 6:54 AM
QUESTION: On Passage
BILL TITLE: One Big Beautiful Act

—- YEAS 215 —

Alford
Burlison
Graves
Onder
Smith (MO)
Wagner

—- NAYS 214 —

Bell
Cleaver

—- ANSWERED “PRESENT” 1 —

—- NOT VOTING 2 —

Yesterday, from Mark Alford (r):

Congressman Mark Alford
[May 22, 2025]
PASSED! [….]
[….]

They ain’t buying the propaganda. Some of the responses:

in the middle of the night…nope no coverup there

You also get your Medicare cut – 4% Medicare cut per year for 10 years is now triggered due to the PayGo law passed in 2010. This is from the non-partisan CBO. So Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP all get deep cuts while tariffs bring on the inflation. Your SS tax cut might help a little, but there is a lot here that is going to hurt like hell for the most vulnerable citizens

Nothing screams honesty and integrity like voting in the middle of the night. I will be voting against you Alford.

Hidden in this Bill is a kingmaking provision.
“No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued….”
Translated: No federal court may enforce a contempt citation.
Obviously, courts need appropriated funds to do anything because Congress appropriates money to enable the courts to function. To require a security or bond to be given in civil proceedings seeking to stop alleged abuses by the federal government would effectively immunize such conduct from judicial review because those seeking such court orders generally don’t have the resources to post a bond.
Hence, with a stroke, the provision removes the judiciary’s capacity to hold officials in contempt.
How could you allow this?

Fascists gotta Fascist.

they can try but I hope the citizens would rise up in protest.

This basically neuters the courts and makes congress useless.

he doesn’t care.
MAGA wants us living in a fascist dictatorship. This is all part of the process.

Nice job, Congressman! As a person with money, I love getting more, and there is nothing better than watching people lose their healthcare. Thank you!

Probably sarcasm.

Hooray for the billionaires and corporations!
You did it.

Probably sarcasm.

Yaaaaaa your speech was awesome I see it took all night

Ditto.

You’re proud of this?!!

How many of your own constituents rely on Medicaid for access to healthcare?

41% of babies born in Missouri depend on Medicaid. [….]

Robin Hood in reverse, take from the poor and middle class and give to the rich !!

This is a huge problem for the working class. Despite your lies this bill will actually just transfer wealth from the working class to the wealthy elites. You should be ashamed of this bill which will give massive tax breaks to the wealthy and increase the national debt. All while cutting funding for social programs designed to offer assistance to our less fortunate citizens.

those are the talking points because that’s the easiest way to summarize the wealth grab. The lower tax brackets will all see increases so that the highest tax brackets can see cuts. Plus they will be making massive cuts to Medicaid and snap benefits. This bill extends and makes permanent the original tax breaks given during Trump’s first term. Those tax breaks increased the national debt by $10.7 trillion. This new big beautiful bill will make those tax breaks permanent and give even more to the wealthy elite.

I watched the congressional budget hearing on the bill itself. I’d encourage you to go watch it also. I will warn you it is over 4 hours long so block out some time for the research. It is worth the watch but it will unfortunately shatter your belief that this bill is good for Americans.

Tax breaks for the wealthy

Incredible how fast a washed-up local morning show anchor can go from fluff pieces to fascist cosplay. Supporting the deportation of American citizens with no due process, cozying up to dictators, touting Christianity while cutting government assistance. Sounds less like patriotism and more like selling out America one “Faux News” soundbite at a time. Truly soulless.

You just primaried yourself. You just voted to cut benefits and enrich rhe rich even more. Voters don’t like that.

As one of your constituents, I’m very disappointed that you voted YES to advance a House budget that rips away health care & food from millions—just to shower trillions on billionaires. Moms and families are watching. We’re not giving up on our families or economy.

There is so much extra BS among the 1,116 pages of that “big bill”. From repealing tanning bed taxes to allowing destruction of forests in the national parks. You should be embarrassed. Not proud.

Nice of you to admit you want children & the elderly to suffer the most. [….]

This is terrible for our country. You are terrible for our country and one day you will be held accountable for all these lies you are spreading.

This bill will take care of billionaires. It will help people as if you were just hit by a tornado or hurricane

There went Trumps promise Medicaid and Medicare wouldn’t get cut
Congressman Mark Alford fighting for the Elites at the cost to the poor. He’s what Maga is all about and it’s not making Americans Great.
Let the People see who Republicans fight for and the results they bring

Congressman Mark Alford, I know you’ve expressed a lot of concern about the debt and said it can’t continue to increase. So…how much is this going to add? $3 trillion? $4 trillion? But hey, at least all those billionaires are getting even more tax breaks.

You forgot stripping medical care and food assistance for the poor and infirm to give billions to the wealthy and upping the deficit by 3 plus trillions.

Mr. Alford, when will you have a real, in-person, town hall, instead of another meet and greet, or a rigged, virtual town halls where you get to pick who attends and what questions you’ll answer? Where you have to listen to your constituents instead of just talking at them to tell them your party’s line?

Robs hard working Americans and make the rich richer. Thanks for nothing.

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
– 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.
Read the fine print. Read the bill.

To your everlasting shame 😡

Stop calling it the big beautiful bill. It’s a bullshit bill for billionaires.

Remember Trump proclaiming he would never cut Medicare? He lied to the tune of $500 billion. Seniors can now get a tax break if the buy a tanning bed but not if the need a hospital bed

And you’re proud of harming the poor, elderly, and children? Monster.

This bill hurts Seniors and the poor, it’s not beautiful [….]

I thought Trump had stopped all the illegal immigrants coming over the border. Why is there $46 billion dollars allocated for construction of the wall? Didn’t Mexico already pay for that?

Hey Mark I guess you don’t like fresh air or water Since you voted against polluting protections 😡 also now Republicans are known as the Lawless Party since You voted To ignore Judges😱 We Missourians don’t forget what You are Showing US

I hope you and every other Republican who voted for this travesty lose your seats in 2026. You’ve betrayed your constituents and your country.

You are cutting benefits while blowing up the deficit. Hiding unscrupulous language on judicial law within your bill. You must be really stupid to say you are not.
The Congressional Budget Office is clear 13.6 million Amercians will lose health coverage due to cuts to Medicaid and Affordable Care Act in House Budget Bill.
Only the U.S. Senate can stop these cuts.
Call your senators!

You lied cheated stole and in the middle of the night passed the largest tax hike and Medicaid cuts act in the history of time.
You could not even get plus 50%
Half of the representatives of the people in this country voted NO to your TAX hike.
If you were a true representative of the people you would have facilitated a deal… but you are nothing more than orange nose carpet licker.

Trump’s Republican budget takes food and health care from poor people to fund yachts and mansions for rich people.

You’re a really horrible person, Congressman Alford. You do realize that, don’t you. 🐷

I’ve gone past mad. Now I’m just sad. The cruelty is the point. The hatred of normal people is the point. Reversing every good thing the Democrats did is the point. Then Mark posts scripture? The up side: with our climate problems we’ll probably all be dead in 10 years.

They consider that a feature, not a bug.