July 15, 2026
The American Rescue Plan, passed in March 2021 without a single
Republican vote, expanded the Child Tax Credit for one year. This
temporary expansion lifted 3.7 million children out of poverty
before it expired, Five years later, the results of the One Big
Beautiful Bill Act, which passed without a single Democratic
vote, reveals a very different set of priorities, OBBA expanded
tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations, cutting more than $1
trillion from social welfare programs, The difference between the
two bills reveals how the parties see the purpose of government -
for the good of the people or to concentrate wealth and power
among a few, Consumers are being screwed by the push to do away
with reviews designed to protect people from monopoly power,
Trump has called together a select group of Republicans to try to
get their funding package which includes billions for military
funding, for bailing out farmers hurt by tariffs, and for
enacting aspects of the SAVE America Act, past Congress
through budget reconciliation, The administration is also trying
to fund immigration enforcement, which has led to two deaths at
the hands of ICE agents, Funding the war in Iran, funding voter
suppression, and funding the crackdown on immigrants are not
popular with Americans, but Trump has pushed continued traffic
stops, and continued strikes in Iran, nonetheless.
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