The ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ is a big, ugly mess

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Author(s)	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 bill’s cost. The politicians know they’ll just extend the tax breaks, as we’re seeing now.) The bill’s proposed spending increases for the military, immigration enforcement and deportations would cost about $600 billion more.

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This item argues against the position Act should be passed on the topic One Big Beautiful Bill Act.