>>22666389 House Passes Budget Resolution That Will Increase Military Spending by $100 BillionPN
I hate the house and senate, they just hear about all the waste and abuse, and no passed audits for 8 years, but they give them $100 BILLION more to spend. All these people are paid off by Arms dealers.Our Congress is the ACTUAL and REAL MAFIA in the US.
GOP tax chief voiced ‘huge concern’ over Senate tax plan at White House meeting
Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith raised questionsabout whether a Senate accounting tactic would be OK'd in the chamber.(tactic=scam)
Benjamin Guggenheim
02/27/2025, 1:41pm ET
Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.) said that he raised "a huge concern" at a White House meeting Wednesday about how the Senate plans to advance President Donald Trump’s tax plan.
Smith, in an interview Thursday with POLITICO,said that he fears an accounting tactic the Senate plans to use to dramatically lower the cost of the plan — and that he favors himself — might be rejected by the Senate’s independent legislative referee.
Smith said he raised the issue in the meeting that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and top congressional Republicans convened to strategize over the GOP’s tax agenda.
The accounting tactic, known as a “current policy baseline,” would make an extension of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts appear to cost nothing. That would solve a major math problem for Republicans since they could extend the cuts, set to expire at the end of the year, without having to pay for them with corresponding spending reductions.
But Senate rules are complex and the accounting method may be rejected by the chamber’s parliamentarian, who will referee such issues under the budget reconciliation process Republicans plan to use to circumvent a Democratic filibuster in the Senate.
“It’s definitely a concern that the House has that the Senate is needing to figure out on their side of the building,” Smith said.
Speaker Mike Johnson emerged from the White House meeting speaking favorably about the Senate tactic, even though the House budget passed Tuesday would require the tax cuts to be offset by spending cuts. GOP senators — and Smith — have said the House plan wouldn’t accommodate a permanent extension of the expiring tax cuts.
The Senate’s accounting method would make that problem disappear, and Republican senators have expressed confidence they can get the parliamentarian to approve their plan.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said on Thursday that conversations with the parliamentarian were already underway. Thune added that he believes Senate Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) ultimately has the authority to decide to use the current policy baseline.
“We believe that the chairman of the Budget Committee makes that call, but obviously it’s something that we will be discussing and having conversations with the parliamentarian,” said Thune in an interview.
That guy is the Senate Parliamentarian!
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/02/27/congress/gop-tax-chief-senate-tax-plan-00206442
Raheem.
@RaheemKassam
This is a cute moment, but then you remember Sir Keir Starmer is cancelling elections like a dictator, cracking down on free speech, oppressing pro-life Christians, abetting radical Islam and grooming gangs, and cosying up to China.
Not a GREAT day for the White House, tbh.
(Trump knows the scam, he always does)
3:55 PM · Feb 27, 2025
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https://x.com/RaheemKassam/status/1895216175925318037
I kind of wish Trump hadn't let him come, it's like he's polluting our air here. Macron was bad enough.
Scott Jennings
@ScottJenningsKY
I spend most of my time repeating back to liberals their own words and ideas, only to have them - seconds later - deny ever saying them. It’s truly astonishing.This convo on @cnn 👀
0:03 / 2:17
7:51 AM · Feb 27, 2025
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https://x.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1895094409181405553
OMG I really can't stop laughing. These people are SO STUPID!
Really guys you have to save this one, the morons are getting more moronic.
Honestly liberal NUT Jobs have the WORST CONSPIRACY THEORIES, it's like they read Marvel Comics and every character in them is real and will materialize to either destroy America or SAVE America. They are really fucking crazy.
At the end Jennnins repeats back what they all said, and he asked, is that what you are saying? one women says,"we are literally not saying that", but they actually literally said everything he repeated to them
I think these people are too stupid to lie, they can't remember what they say, and I guess people watching it are getting much smarter daily hearing it…KEK
I hope Jennings get a lot of money to listen to them, and rebut them daily.
I don't think this guy went to school, and he certainly hasn't had a shower for a while, and what's up with his squirrely looking mouth and teeth?
Hochul tells Trump to cough up $15B to fix NYC subways if congestion pricing is cut
Emily Crane February 27, 2025 at 9:27 AM
(I don’t know but I think Hochul lying about the discussion with Trump to the MSNBC news is not a good strategy, let’s see how this bitchy approach works out)
President Trump will have to come up with $15 billion in federal cash to fix New York City’s subway system if he wants to cut congestion pricing, Gov. Kathy Hochul insisted Thursday — as their ongoing spat over the controversial Manhattan toll only continues to escalate.
The Democrat said she gave Trump the so-called ultimatum during their White House sit-down late last week, telling him he would need to dip into US coffers to offset the billions the state is estimated to lose if the congestion toll is nixed.
“You’re gonna have to give me $15 billion to invest in a subway system, then,” Hochul told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” of her closed-door meeting with the president on Wednesday.
Gov. Kathy Hochul said she gave President Trump the so-called ultimatum during their White House sit-down late last week, telling him he would need to dip into federal coffers to offset the billions the state is estimated to lose if the congestion toll is nixed. MSNBC
“If I lose $15 billion that we’re able to leverage with the money brought in by congestion pricing, then I won’t be able to fix the stations and the repairs and the new buses I need.” Her apparent demand is just the latest development in the showdown between the feds and state over the scheme to charge drivers a $9 fee to enter Manhattan below 60th Street.
The Trump administration has given the state a deadline of March 21 to “cease the collection of tolls” after US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced last week he was scrapping federal approval.
Hochul, for her part, has repeatedly vowed to resist the order.
“We have to fight to keep it going, and that’s why I’m taking it to the courts and I’ll take it wherever I can,” Hochul said during Thursday’s MSNBC appearance — as she doubled down on remarks made a day earlier.
“They’re telling us we have to have an orderly cessation by the end of March. I’m saying we’re going to have to have an orderly resistance,” she added.
The apparent demand is just the latest development in the heated showdown between the Trump administration and state over the scheme to charge drivers a $9 fee to enter Manhattan below 60th Street. AP
“We are not turning off the cameras.”
Hochul said she tried to lean on the fact that Trump and she are both native New Yorkers in a bid to sway the president, who has decried the toll as a “terrible tax on working class.”(She can’t even fake being polite)==
“I said, ‘Mr. President, you’re a New Yorker. First of all, the most offensive thing I found in the letter from Sean Duffy was citing New Jersey saying they don’t like this,'” she said, referring to the transportation secretary’s order to cut the toll.
“‘Mr. President, we’re both New Yorkers. Why do we care what New Jersey thinks?,'” she continued.
“It’s a lovely place. But you know what? If you are taking the tunnels, it’s 48% faster. So I want New Jersey residents to come here. Come be part of an important part of our economy. If you’re still driving … I just gave you the gift of time.
“Yes, I’m sorry, there’s a cost to it — but that’s what the concept of congestion pricing is all about.
I need to continue proving this to the president.”
It comes after MTA honcho Janno Lieber also vowed to continue collecting the toll until the state is slapped with a court order.
“We have an approval that is valid and in effect, and we’re not turning them off absent a court order,” Lieber said during Wednesday’s MTA board meeting.
He argued the toll had already proven to be effective, saying there had been 2.8 million fewer cars in the congestion relief zone since the program kicked off last month.
https://www.aol.com/apple-launches-age-assurance-tech-215932350.html
Kathy Hochul tells Trump to cough up $15 billion to fix NYC subways
Trump must be the most patient man alive.
@RapidResponse47
Fake News. President Trump was clearly talking to the reporter trying to goad the leaders into division.
Acyn
@Acyn
·1h
Starmer: You mentioned Canada, I think you’re trying to find a divide that doesn’t exist Trump: That’s enough
4:11 PM · Feb 27, 2025
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https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1895220168818860542