I bet you thought you'd escaped budget stories, didn't ya? Sadly the joke's on us all because the GOP's homicidal class war reconciliation budget can now be fairly described as *historically* awful. As more people analyze the CBO report on the "Big Beautiful Bill" Mike Johnson is ramming through the house for Swine Emperor Trump, it's becoming clear that this is literally an unprecedented high speed robbery of the American labor class, to fatten the pockets of the already obscenely wealthy.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/republican-wealth-transfer

CBO Report Shows Trump-GOP Bill Would Spur Unparalleled Wealth Transfer From Poor to Rich

"The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday that the Republican legislation speeding through the U.S. House of Representatives would cut household resources for the bottom 10% of Americans while delivering gains to the wealthiest in the form of tax breaks.

"If enacted, this would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in U.S. history," Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, said in response to the CBO analysis, which was released shortly before the start of a dead-of-night House Rules Committee hearing on the Republican reconciliation package."

I mean, if I'm being honest I feel like we could just wrap this discussion up right there; it doesn't really get more direct than "the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in U.S. history." Let's go get some pizza?

Okay fine; there is a little bit of obtuse CBO report language to wade through in this article. Fortunately however the final breakdown isn't all that complex. In addition to stripping over a trillion and a half dollars in long term funding from life-saving social assistance programs like Medicaid, SNAP, and Medicare, this bill also shifts the tax burden onto the least wealthy Americans, to benefit more wealthy Americans in higher tax brackets. Particularly the very wealthy ruling class. Folks already being ground up by capitalism suffer more hardships and worse health outcomes, so rich people can buy more shit that helps them extract even more value out of the American labor class.

In the final analysis the CBO report proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that House Republicans are actively planning to rob and murder poor people, to pay off the rich; which some of you may remember I've been telling you all along. We just have it writing now.

I'm not sure what it's going to take for mainstream media to admit the GOP reconciliation budget bill is absolutely a plot to murder labor class Americans for the benefit of the wealthiest people in our society, but the evidence that this is precisely what's going on here continues to mount. A breaking Congressional Budget Office estimate released last night shows that precisely because the Republican Party's class war murder and theft bill does *not* reduce the deficit, but will in fact increase it, passing this budget reconciliation bill will automatically trigger sequestration under the Statutory Pay‑As‑You‑Go Act; which is a fancy way of saying it will result in over $500 billion in cuts to Medicare over the next 10 years. This is of course despite President Donald Trump's promise that the so-called "Big Beautiful Bill" wouldn't touch funding for either Medicaid or Medicare.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/cuts-to-medicare

'They're Not Just Cutting Medicaid': GOP Bill Would Trigger Over $500 Billion in Medicare Cuts

"This Republican budget bill is one of the most expensive—and dangerous—bills Congress has seen in decades," said Boyle, the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee. "The nonpartisan CBO makes it clear: The deficit will explode so badly it will trigger automatic cuts, including over half a trillion dollars from Medicare."

"This is what Republicans do—pay for massive tax breaks for billionaires by going after programs families rely on the most: Medicaid, food assistance, and now Medicare," Boyle added. "It's reckless, dishonest, and deeply harmful to the middle class."

Boyle highlighted the CBO's findings during his testimony at the House Rules Committee hearing, which began in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

"This is really the breaking news," Boyle said. "Over the last several months, there's been no discussion of Medicare at all. There has been of Medicaid, but not of Medicare."

"Because of the size of the deficits, because of the PAYGO or Pay-As-You-Go Act, that would trigger sequestration of Medicare, and it would total over $500 billion," Boyle continued. "The official figure that CBO confirms is $535 billion in cuts to Medicare."

For those of you who are unaware, Medicare is the federal health insurance program that typically provides coverage for Americans 65 and over; it's at least partially funded by payroll taxes and in a country that does almost nothing to help seniors who are no longer in the workforce, it's a program that saves lives every single day. The GOP has been trying to eliminate or privatize this program for decades, and as such I have a hard time believing these proposed cuts, which again add up to like $550B over the course of ten years, are in any way accidental even if they are automatic. These GOP nazis know what they're doing, and the rest of their budget is devoted to the same goal: killing poor and marginalized people so the wealthiest individuals in our society can pile up more money they won't live long enough to spend. Peter Thiel needs more cheddar to mainstream dystopian fascist propaganda, so Grandma is going in the woodchipper; that's literally the plan here, and it is both entirely predictable and intentional.

Which of course brings up the question of why American corporate media isn't just up and telling you that the Republicans want to kill poor people and seniors to pay for Elon Musk's quest to birth himself a child army by bribing social media influencers to accept his sperm? Could it be because the people who own those media outlets stand to make a pretty penny from the GOP's reconciliation budget bill and they hate poor people almost as much as rich Republican nazis do? Who can say...

@Ulrich_the_elder @JugglingWithEggs Nevada Energy, the source for electricity in Nevada, is owned more than 90% by Berkshire Hathaway aka Warren Buffett. It has just been revealed that the company misclassified ~ 60-80K customers and overcharged them to the tune of more than $17 million while refunding only a small portion when the mistake was discovered.

#UtilityCompanies #Nevada #Theft

https://news3lv.com/newsletter-daily/nv-energy-ceo-resigns-17m-overcharging-controversy-nevada-electricity-gas-berkshire-hathaway-las-vegas

The GOP is giving rich people hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks and they want to pay for it by slashing healthcare and starving poor people.

Nina-Bytes: Theft, Murder, and the GOP Reconciliation Budget

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/13/nina-bytes-theft-murder-and-the-gop-reconciliation-budget/

"Since killing your constituents so rich people can buy another yacht isn’t a popular policy decision, Trump and the GOP promised to pay for these cuts by hunting out “waste, fraud, and abuse” through DOGE cuts and the implementation of tariffs that were going to make us rich enough to end income tax; predictably neither of those schemes worked out. The most generous verifiable estimates have DOGE finding $63B worth of “waste” to cut with a difficult to confirm promise the department will save $160B by the fiscal year 2026. I understand that might sound like a lot of money to you or I, but it’s miniscule compared to the $2 trillion Elon Musk claimed DOGE would find and also isn’t enough to pay for $880B in tax cuts for rich people. Trump’s unhinged tariff policies have predictably been an even bigger joke, and Der Leader is already trying to roll back most of his trade war. These numbers simply don’t add up, so now the quest to find “waste, fraud, and abuse” to pay off the billionaire donor class means throwing poor people off Medicaid and calling that efficiency.)

(Note: I wrote 90% of this last week, then got sick and had zero time to finish it till last night; hunting source links and editing take time, and I just didn't have it till now. My bad.)

Well, that certainly didn't last long. As I pointed out earlier, the GOP's failure to get their homicidal class war budget bill out of committee was always going to be a temporary situation. Now, after negotiating through the wee hours with Freedom Caucus "fiscal hawks" the Republicans have progressed the reconciliation bill closer to a floor vote by agreeing to even deeper, and particularly faster cuts to Medicaid; cuts that will ultimately kill Americans, including their own voters.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/house-budget-committee

After 'Backroom Deal' to Make Medicaid Cuts Even Worse, GOP Passes Budget Bill Out of Committee

"Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) wrote in a social media post after joining Norman in voting "present" that "after a great deal of work and engagement over the weekend," the legislation "now will move Medicaid work requirements forward and reduces the availability of future subsidies under the green new scam"—a reference to clean energy tax credits established by the Inflation Reduction Act.

Roy and other Republican hardliners are also reportedly pursuing changes that could force states to end their Medicaid expansions, which would strip coverage from millions and potentially kill tens of thousands of people per year.

In its current form, the Republican reconciliation bill would inflict the largest cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in U.S. history, slashing or eliminating benefits for millions by implementing strict work requirements and forcing many Medicaid recipients to pay more for coverage, among other changes—all while giving major tax breaks to the wealthy.

The legislation's Medicaid work requirements, which policy experts have condemned as cruel and ineffective, were slated to begin in 2029, but GOP hardliners want them to start immediately."

My health willing, we're going to talk a little bit later about the fascist Republican party's obsession with work requirements, and why that policy has been disastrous pretty much everywhere, and every time, the GOP has been able to legislate it into social assistance programs of any kind. What's important to understand here is that "meat is back on the menu boys" and you, or at least poor and marginalized Americans, are the meat. That means that over a trillion dollars worth of cruel cuts to Medicaid and SNAP programs that keep people alive, cuts that will thus result in dead Americans, are back on the menu too - and every rich maggot nazi in America could not be more delighted about that.

Next up in our tour of budget analysis on Common Dreams, I'd like to share a report that demonstrates why I'm referring to this bill as a literal "class war" budget. This monstrous bullshit is basically a nesting doll of terrible policies and financial gifts for some of the worst people in our society, at the expense of the most vulnerable. In addition to ripping over a trillion dollars out of social safety net programs, the reconciliation bill *also* creates a tax shelter for rich people funding the longstanding fundie fascist quest to privatize American schools, while effectively disincentivizing actual charitable giving.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/republicans-school-privatization

GOP Bill Gives Rich Funders of Deeply Unpopular School Privatization 'A Lucrative Tax Shelter'

"In effect, according to an analysis published Thursday by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), the legislation "allows wealthy individuals to avoid paying capital gains tax as a reward for funneling public funds into private schools."

"While the bill significantly cuts charitable giving incentives overall, nonprofits that commit to focusing solely on supporting private K-12 schools would be spared from those cuts and see their donors' tax incentive almost triple relative to what they receive today," ITEP explained. "On top of that, the bill goes out of its way to provide school voucher donors who contribute corporate stock with an extra layer of tax subsidy that works as a lucrative tax shelter."

"The House tax plan would create a system that treats people supporting private K-12 vouchers far more generously than donors to children's hospitals, veterans' groups, and every other cause imaginable," the group added.

ITEP estimated that if the policy had been in effect in 2021, billionaire Elon Musk could have saved $690 million in federal capital gains taxes."

As I wrote back when Trump named school voucher advocate Betsy DeVos his first Education Secretary, the privatization of American schools is a longstanding goal of ruling class fundie fascists, who stand to benefit from that privatization in a plethora of ways. Not only do these folks have billions of dollars invested in private education companies looking to monetize the replacement of America's public education system, they also want to establish those schools as Christian Nationalist indoctrination centers away from the prying eyes of state regulators, advocacy groups, and teachers unions. These folks paid a lot of money to buy GOP politicians and everything about this aligns completely with the Trump administration's fascist agenda, so I'm not at all surprised that the GOP is now trying to actively incentivize investing in school privatization; if you want to know why the Pork Reich is busy trying to sabotage public education, look no further than the millions and millions of dollars the folks behind the Christian Nationalist school voucher lobby stand to gain from it.

Okay, so as I mentioned yesterday, I don't think the GOP's embarrassing failure to get their nightmare class war budgetary bill out of committee yesterday, actually means all that much; especially since the GOP freaks who voted against the bill did so because it wasn't going to kill enough poor people to appease their deficit scaremongering bullshit. I suspect most of the homicidal cuts in Trump's "big beautiful bill" aren't going anywhere, so I'm going to keep sharing analysis of that bill until it's actually dead.

To that end, I'd like to look at a compilation of some of Common Dreams excellent budget analysis, because they're doing a much better job grounding their perspective in the concerns of the people who're going to be most affected by these cuts: labor class people, particularly otherwise marginalized labor class people.

First up, as more research proving Medicaid saves thousands of lives is released, it's becoming demonstrably clear that folks calling the GOP's proposed budget bill "homicidal" aren't exaggerating at all. This bill is going to literally kill a whole lot of people.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/medicaid-cuts-nebr-research

GOP Cuts to Medicaid 'Will Kill People,' Advocate Warns and New Research Bolsters

"As Republicans in Congress pressed ahead this week with a plan that would cause at least 8 million Americans to lose Medicaid as part of a sweeping tax and spending bill desired by U.S. President Donald Trump, a recently published working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, first reported on by The New York Times, shows that Medicaid expansion saved over 27,000 lives since 2010.

A provision in the 2010 Affordable Care Act, which went into effect in 2014, allowed states to expand eligibility for Medicaid to all low-income adults regardless of disability or parenthood status. The change is part of the reason that enrollment in the program rose roughly 50% between 2010 and 2021, according to the authors of the study.

The study, which used a dataset of 37 million low-income American adults, found that expansions increased Medicaid enrollment by 12 percentage points. The study estimates that people who enrolled in Medicaid were 21% less likely to die compared to those not enrolled."

The fact is that deficit scaremongers and so-called "fiscal hawks" rely on transforming policies that will murder Americans into piles of numbers and abstractions, to claim we can't anticipate the negative outcomes of economic policy on labor class people. This isn't just right wing wish-casting however, because the GOP has access to the same data everyone else does, and they know real human lives will end on the other side of those numbers. They just don't care; they're fine with lying to you and murdering people to give billionaires huge tax cuts and look tough on "entitlements."