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October 16, 2025

  • 20:4620:46, October 16, 2025 Hey America. It’s Kansas. We’ve done the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ and know how it ends (hist | edit) [793 bytes] Yaron Koren (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Item |author=Dion Lefler |source=The Miami Herald |date=July 3, 2025 |url=https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/article309967420.html |quote=Former Gov. Sam Brownback ran almost exactly this same play in 2012. Income tax cuts weighted toward the wealthy, based on an underlying, but deeply flawed, theory that those cuts would spur a burst of economic growth the likes of which we had never seen. It was supposed to cover the damage from shortening one leg of the “three-le...")
  • 20:4320:43, October 16, 2025 Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ means the end of the real pursuit of happiness (hist | edit) [640 bytes] Yaron Koren (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Item |author=LeBron Antonio Hill |source=The Miami Herald |date=July 2, 2025 |url=https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/article309726090.html |quote=Conservatives and Trumpers alike believe that the pursuit of happiness is a path you walk alone, without help or guidance from those who have come before. But people like me, who had to work hard to get where I am, know that success is made with people who reach their hand out in help and a whole lot of luck. For millions of...")
  • 20:2320:23, October 16, 2025 Trump budget bill could cripple wind and solar industry in Texas (hist | edit) [702 bytes] Yaron Koren (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Item |author=Nick Powell |source=Houston Chronicle |date=July 3, 2025 |url=https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/trump-budget-bill-wind-solar-ira-credits-20415094.php |quote=Electric vehicle sales continue to increase, while combustion-engine vehicles still dominate the market. This is what an energy abundance agenda looks like. Texas is living proof that ideological rigidity on energy is self-defeating. Trump's budget bill views the clean energy ve...")

October 15, 2025

  • 12:1312:13, October 15, 2025 How Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Will Make China Great Again (hist | edit) [748 bytes] Yaron Koren (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Item |author=Thomas Friedman |source=The New York Times |date=July 3, 2025 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/opinion/trump-bill-clean-energy-china.html |quote=You cannot make this up: Even Saudi Arabia is doubling down on solar power to meet the needs of the A.I. data centers it wants to recruit from the West, while President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” actually does just the opposite. It quickly phases out tax credits enjoyed by utility-scale solar and w...")
  • 11:5811:58, October 15, 2025 Senate just passed Trump's Big Beautiful Bill – and made it even uglier (hist | edit) [642 bytes] Yaron Koren (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Item |author=Dace Potas |source=USA Today |date=July 1, 2025 |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/01/senate-trump-big-beautiful-bill-salt-tax-cuts/84430967007/ |quote=Additionally, the big ugly mess includes no tax on tips, social security and overtime pay. Neither Trump nor Republicans more generally have made a case for why these types of income are deserving of exempt status, and they amount to nothing more than a populist bribe of voters. T...")

October 14, 2025

  • 20:0120:01, October 14, 2025 Trump’s New Budget Law: Very Big, Sometimes Beautiful (hist | edit) [761 bytes] Yaron Koren (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Item |author=National Review editorial board |source=National Review |date=July 3, 2025 |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/07/trumps-new-budget-law-very-big-sometimes-beautiful/ |quote=Republicans talk a good game on spending cuts. For example, the Republican Study Committee budget proposal from last year would have cut spending by $17 trillion over the next ten years. The vast majority of House Republicans are RSC members. But when it came time to actually vote...")
  • 19:5719:57, October 14, 2025 Trump's big, ugly tax legislation will scar many Americans (hist | edit) [671 bytes] Yaron Koren (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Item |author=Ralph Martire |source=Chicago Sun-Times |date=September 10, 2025 |url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/09/10/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-illinois-snap-medicaid-medicare-ralph-martire |quote=Then there’s Medicaid, the nation’s largest insurer, which provides health care coverage to some 71.3 million people, or roughly 20% of all Americans. Over the next decade, the budget office estimates Medicaid gets cut by some $1 trillion under the bill. T...")
  • 19:5319:53, October 14, 2025 'Big, beautiful bill' shows how GOP has deserted conservatism (hist | edit) [864 bytes] Yaron Koren (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Item |author=S. E. Cupp |source=Chicago Sun-Times |date=May 22, 2025 |url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/22/big-beautiful-bill-trump-conservatism-s-e-cupp |quote=Trump’s BBB is a massive, larded-up spending bill. The federal government is already $1.8 trillion in debt, and this bill adds another $3.8 trillion on top of it, more than doubling the current deficit. These numbers may sound conceptual, but they have real world consequences for average Ame...")
  • 18:2718:27, October 14, 2025 Donald Trump’s shortsighted, ugly, terrible, horrible, no good, very bad bill (hist | edit) [760 bytes] Yaron Koren (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Item |author=The Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board |source=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=July 1, 2025 |url=https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/big-beautiful-bill-medicaid-cuts-snap-taxes-20250701.html |quote=The bill creates the largest transfer of wealth ever, thanks to tax cuts for the ultrarich. The slashing of $1.1 trillion in spending for Medicaid would result in roughly 12 million elderly and vulnerable Americans losing health coverage. The Senate b...")
  • 18:1318:13, October 14, 2025 Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill is a $4 trillion tax charade (hist | edit) [839 bytes] Yaron Koren (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Item |author=Thomas Kahn |source=Chicago Tribune |date=July 8, 2025 |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/08/opinion-big-beautiful-bill-donald-trump-us-deficit/ |quote=The trick is remarkably bold. When the Trump tax cuts passed in 2017, most were set to expire in 2025 to reduce their projected 10-year cost. Now, Republicans have made the expiring tax cuts permanent — but instead of acknowledging they would expire unless extended, they’re pretending the cuts...")
  • 18:0918:09, October 14, 2025 Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ doesn’t help Utah take care of its own (hist | edit) [882 bytes] Yaron Koren (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Item |author=The Salt Lake Tribune editorial board |source=The Salt Lake Tribune |date=July 11, 2025 |url=https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/editorial/2025/07/11/tribune-editorial-big-beautiful/ |quote=That’s the measure that will take health care coverage and food assistance away from hundreds of thousands of people in Utah alone. That will siphon money not just from the most vulnerable, but from our state’s economy overall. It will also take many millions of funding...")
  • 18:0718:07, October 14, 2025 Why I voted against Trump's 'Big, Not-So-Beautiful Bill' (hist | edit) [638 bytes] Yaron Koren (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Item |author=Rand Paul |source=The Courier-Journal |date=July 3, 2025 |url=https://www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/contributors/2025/07/03/trump-rand-paul-big-beautiful-bill-vote-congress-debt/84461567007/ |quote=Unlike other senators, I wasn’t looking for earmarks or handouts. I wasn’t interested in horse-trading. All I wanted was a real debate on our national debt levels. They could have had my vote and saved money but instead chose more spending and tax an...")
  • 18:0018:00, October 14, 2025 Trump’s big ugly: One Big Beautiful Bill will do great damage (hist | edit) [1,074 bytes] Yaron Koren (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Item |author=New York Daily News editorial board |source=New York Daily News |date=June 15, 2025 |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/15/trumps-big-ugly/ |quote=If the OBBB cut taxes while tending to the debt and wisely cut spending across the federal government, it would at least be an internally consistent expression of Republican philosophy, an attempt to radically shrink the footprint of the federal government. Instead, the same Republican Party that used to wa...")
  • 17:3017:30, October 14, 2025 The One Big Beautiful Bill is a win for America's working families and seniors (hist | edit) [821 bytes] Yaron Koren (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Item |author=Dave Taylor |source=The Cincinnati Enquirer |date=September 16, 2025 |url=https://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/contributors/2025/09/16/the-one-big-beautiful-bill-is-a-win-for-american-families/85831832007/ |quote=Several provisions President Trump campaigned on were codified: no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, a new tax deduction for senior citizens, and tax benefits similar to those in my bill, the USA CAR Act, to promote Americans buying American-ma...")
  • 17:2717:27, October 14, 2025 "Big, Beautiful Bill" finally tackles entitlement reform (hist | edit) [799 bytes] Yaron Koren (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Item |author=The Detroit News editorial board |source=The Detroit News |date=July 12, 2025 |url=https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/editorials/2025/07/12/editorial-big-beautiful-bill-finally-tackles-entitlement-reform/84541898007/ |quote=This is the kind of serious entitlement reform that has been long necessary. Medicaid spending was about $880 billion in fiscal year 2023, with $606 billion coming from federal contributions and the rest from the states. That is...")
  • 17:2617:26, October 14, 2025 JD Vance's job is to sell the 'One Big Beautiful Bill' that Americans don't want (hist | edit) [850 bytes] Yaron Koren (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Item |author=Chris Brennan |source=USA Today |date=August 24, 2025 |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/24/jd-vance-trump-beautiful-bill-american-voters/85763758007/ |quote=Vance didn't mention that the ability to avoid taxes on up to $12,500 in overtime pay will expire in less than three and a half years. He also left out that the ability to avoid taxes on up to $25,000 in tipped income will also expire on Dec. 31, 2028. And he certainly didn'...")
  • 17:2417:24, October 14, 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act / Act should not have been passed (hist | edit) [12 bytes] Yaron Koren (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Position}}")
  • 17:2417:24, October 14, 2025 Don’t believe the myths — the ‘one big, beautiful bill’ is a big win (hist | edit) [1,003 bytes] Yaron Koren (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Item |author=David Kustoff |source=The Hill |date=September 18, 2025 |url=https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5507133-facts-one-big-beautiful-bill/ |quote=The first myth is that the One Big Beautiful Bill is a tax break for the rich. That is false. In fact, it protects millions of working-class families and small businesses from what would have been the largest tax hike in U.S. history. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 was one of the hallmarks of the first Trump admin...")
  • 17:2117:21, October 14, 2025 Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' will end America’s time as a great power (hist | edit) [508 bytes] Yaron Koren (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Item |author=Michael A. Cohen |source=MSNBC |date=July 1, 2025 |url=https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/big-beautiful-bill-trump-america-great-power-medicaid-rcna216034 |quote=In recent years, clean energy technology has been one of the fastest-growing manufacturing sectors of the U.S. economy. The GOP bill would cripple it. Hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts in solar and wind subsidies would devastate both industries. }} {{Opinion|One Big Beautiful Bill A...")
  • 17:2017:20, October 14, 2025 The Ugly Truth About the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ (hist | edit) [795 bytes] Yaron Koren (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Item |author=Ron Johnson |source=The Wall Street Journal |date=May 12, 2025 |url=https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-ugly-truth-about-the-big-beautiful-bill-writes-senator-ron-johnson-budget-reconciliation-fbc44dc4 |quote=In fiscal 2019, federal outlays totaled $4.45 trillion, or 20.6% of gross domestic product. This year, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s January 2025 projection, total outlays will be $7.03 trillion, or 23.3% of GDP. That’s a 58% increase...")
  • 17:1617:16, October 14, 2025 President Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' will unleash parallel prosperity (hist | edit) [785 bytes] Yaron Koren (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Item |author=Scott Bessent |source=Fox News |date=July 4, 2025 |url=https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/president-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-unleash-parallel-prosperity |quote=The bill prevents a $4.5 trillion tax hike on the American people. This will allow the average worker to keep an additional $4,000 to $7,200 in annual real wages and allow the average family of four to keep an additional $7,600 to $10,900 in take-home pay. Add to this the president’s ambitious dereg...")
  • 17:1517:15, October 14, 2025 One Big Ugly Bill (hist | edit) [566 bytes] Yaron Koren (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Item |author=Times Union editorial board |source=Times Union |date=June 29, 2025 |url=https://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/editorial-one-big-ugly-bill-20395561.php |quote=We’re no hard-liners when it comes to deficits and debt, but even a government that spends more than it takes in needs to be prudent. At more than $36.2 trillion, the national debt is now 120% of the U.S. gross domestic product. This bill would likely send it past 130% by 2034, heading toward...")
  • 17:1217:12, October 14, 2025 The ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ is a big, ugly mess (hist | edit) [780 bytes] Yaron Koren (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Item |author=Jackie Calmes |source=Los Angeles Times |date=May 21, 2025 |url=https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-05-21/big-beautiful-bill-congress-budget-mike-johnson-donald-trump |quote=Extending and expanding Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, which otherwise expire this year, would cost nearly $4.5 trillion over 10 years, $5.8 trillion if the cuts are permanent. (Mandating that tax cuts expire after a time, as Trump did in 2017, is an old budget gimmick to understate a...")
  • 16:3916:39, October 14, 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act / Act should be passed (hist | edit) [12 bytes] Yaron Koren (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Position}}")
  • 16:3616:36, October 14, 2025 Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ is the ultimate betrayal of his base (hist | edit) [914 bytes] Yaron Koren (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Item |author=Sidney Blumenthal |source=The Guardian |date=July 11, 2025 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/11/trump-big-beautiful-bill |quote=The price will be staggering: $1tn in cuts to Medicaid; throwing 17 million people off health coverage closing rural hospitals and women’s health clinics; battering food assistance for families, children and veterans; the virtual destruction of US solar and wind energy manufacturing; limiting access to fina...")
  • 16:3016:30, October 14, 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act (hist | edit) [98 bytes] Yaron Koren (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Topic |start date=May 20, 2025 |end date=July 4, 2026 |Themes=United States domestic politics }}")

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