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The twisted path forward for the Big, Beautiful Bill - will the GQP continue its contortions? [1]
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Date: 2025-05-29
Unfortunately, I will lead with the answer — yes. But the discussion reflects so much of the GQP hypocrisy (I know, by now the quote is correctly changed to “Hypocrisy, thy name is GQP”) that I want to walk through it.
CNBC is reporting here about the work arounds available to DonOld for reimposing tariffs after the US Court of International Trade invalidated his executive order imposing the tariffs. The twisted path is as follows:
Every time the tariffs are walked back or struck down, the US stock market has a massive rally — and everyone breaths a sigh of relief.
Every time DonOld slaps tariffs back on, the market crashes and people get pissed at DonOld — wealthy and not so wealthy alike.
But the Big Beautiful Bill has lots of dollars baked in from the tariffs. If the tariffs go, it goes from just a ginormous debt bomb to an “OMG” debt bomb.
The GQP Senate should be forced to address the fact that if the tariffs in the budget are planned on, how does the economy and their donor class survive? If they say the tariffs will be removed, how do they address the fact that the future debt impacts become even more outrageous?
The reality is that the GQP must confront that there is no way the BUBBA (whoever changed if from Big, Beautiful Bill to the Big, Ugly, Budget Busting Act here is a genius) can end up any way but going down the drains.
All that said, I realize that a rational discussion of the path forward is, by definition, a discussion that will never happen in this Congress or in the MSM.
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