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OK, let's see what's in it:

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/sledgehammer-friday-july-4-2025-c

Immigration got the biggest boost. A $30 billion allocation supercharged ICE’s operational footprint, including for expedited removals, detention expansion, and interjurisdictional deputization under the INA, allowing local law enforcement officers to be deputized as federal immigration agents.

A $10 billion “State Border Security Reinforcement Fund” allows states to apply for substantial grants to fund their own enforcement activities—provided they cooperate with federal priorities. This embeds a federalism-based enforcement surge within DHS control, allowing the Executive to co-opt state forces without surrendering state supremacy.

States that don’t cooperate won’t get paid. Sorry.

OK, that sounds good for US citizen wages.

The bill mandates expansion of biometric tracking for aliens at their entry, including DNA sampling, broadening the executive branch’s surveillance and identification net for both lawful and unlawful entrants.

Those who come illegally should have their DNA sampled, but it seems rude to legitimate visitors. I would not put up with that as a tourist.

First, conservative critics complain that OBBBA blows the budget. The truth is, the bill contains a historically high level of cuts— nearly $1.5 trillion. The larger, offsetting ‘increases’ everyone is complaining about are estimates provided by the CBO, which is restricted by various rules that preclude it from accounting for things like increased tax revenues from economic growth or tariff earnings.

In other words, the CBO’s estimate is a bad guess, and the Administration adheres to its claim of a budget surplus.

I'd like to see irrefutable cuts to the federal budget, like the old Trump used to call for.

Second, liberal critics hysterically cry that it cuts Medicare for the neediest citizens! But all anyone has to do is read the bill, and that lie is easily exposed. All the bill includes are commonsense tweaks to eligibility for welfare, like minimal work requirements for able-bodied recipients. The reason you’ll never see any actual bill language quoted by critics is because it’s simply not there.

Interesting. Maybe it is simply not true that it cuts Medicare.

What the DemonDems are also weeping about is the BBB funding for FBI and DOJ to continue investigations and indictments. They were starting to run on dry.

WookieMan says

There's an easy way to go after the rich that they would barely notice.

You wanna increase tax on just the super-rich ???

Just put a cap of like $10 million 0n charity donations.