"For now, the affordability issue belongs to Democrats. Everything the administration is doing on the economy not only won’t make things better, it’s already unpopular. Tax cuts for the wealthy, tariffs, cutting off benefits to low-income people — they can say it’s going to improve the average person’s life, but that average person isn’t going to buy it."

~ Paul Waldman

#Trump #economy #TaxCuts #EconomicElites #food #groceries #layoffs #JobMarket #affordability
/7

https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-affordability-issue-belongs-to

"Today Trump is fully unbridled. Yet, for the first time, finds himself unable to convince majorities that he’s got a magic economic touch. As the situation deteriorates, he’ll have to either reverse course—changing pretty much everything about the way he’s governing—or else go to even greater lengths to control information and manipulate the public."

#Trump #inflation #groceries #economy #tariffs#TaxCuts#EconomicElites#Medicare#Medicaid#BigBeautifulBill
/4

"For most of his years in office, Trump has benefitted from unearned public trust in his stewardship of the economy. It even kept him afloat in 2020, as he managed to persuade most Americans that the pandemic-induced recession was an act of god, rather than a crisis he exacerbated through deceit and incompetence."

~ Brian Beutler

#Trump #inflation #groceries #economy #tariffs#TaxCuts#EconomicElites#Medicare#Medicaid#BigBeautifulBill
/3

https://www.offmessage.net/p/trump-is-spiraling

"And think of how many times he promised not to cut Medicare or Medicaid, then bullied Republican members of Congress into passing a budget that takes $1 trillion from Medicaid, threatening to deny millions of Americans access to health care and force rural hospitals to close. Meanwhile, cuts to nutrition programs threaten rural grocery stores."

#Trump #inflation #groceries #economy #tariffs#TaxCuts#EconomicElites#Medicare#Medicaid#BigBeautifulBill
/2

"Trump campaigned as if he had a foolproof plan to reduce grocery prices on day one, but in fact, grocery prices are up 3 percent year-over-year and reached record highs in 2025. In an example of classic Trump gaslighting, he’s telling people the bald-faced lie that prices are 'WAY DOWN.'"

~ Svante Myrick

#Trump #inflation #groceries #economy #tariffs#TaxCuts#EconomicElites#Medicare#Medicaid#BigBeautifulBill
/1

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5432719-trump-broken-promises-corruption/

"Patients and medical centers are already feeling the pain as several provisions in the GOP’s deadly spending law take immediate effect, either as required or in practice. ...

Hospitals are closing or actively considering doing so, cutting programs, and laying off staff."

~ Whitney Curry Wimbish

#Trump#BigBeautifulBill #hospitals#Medicaid#EconomicElites#TaxCuts
/1

People voted for this to be done to themselves and their loved ones.

"Patients and medical centers are already feeling the pain as several provisions in the GOP’s deadly spending law take immediate effect, either as required or in practice. ...

Hospitals are closing or actively considering doing so, cutting programs, and laying off staff."

~ Whitney Curry Wimbish

#Trump#BigBeautifulBill #hospitals#Medicaid#EconomicElites#TaxCuts
/1

People voted for this to be done to themselves and their loved ones.

"The legislation Senate Republicans passed on Tuesday is probably going to kill a lot of people.

It sounds stark when you put it that way, but death is a stark thing. It’s also what can be reasonably expected from the GOP legislation, especially the cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act projected to leave nearly 12 million Americans newly uninsured."

~ Jonathan Cohn

#Trump#Republicans#BigBeautifulBill#EconomicElites#TaxCuts #oligarchy #immigrants
/5

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/an-ignominious-bill-passed-by-an-inglorious-body-afflict-afflicted-comfort-comfortable-trump-republicans-medicaid-bbb

As Jonathan Cohn adds, "this legislation [is] arguably the biggest transfer of money from poor to rich in American history."

#Trump#Republicans#BigBeautifulBill#EconomicElites#TaxCuts #oligarchy #immigrants #prisons #deportations
/6

"Last week's horrific Supreme Court decisions further undermine our rights and the rule of law, and the attacks on immigrants and refugees continue to get more brutal, while a new attack on birthright citizenship and naturalized citizens is underway."

~ Rebecca Solnit

#Trump#Republicans#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#BigBeautifulBill#EconomicElites#TaxCuts #oligarchy #immigrants #prisons #deportations
/11

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/cynicism-is-the-enemy-of-action/

"If we do nothing, we will live in an authoritarian country, where the checks and balances guaranteed by the Constitution and the rights encoded in the Bill of Rights will become irrelevancies."

#Trump#Republicans#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#BigBeautifulBill#EconomicElites#TaxCuts #oligarchy #immigrants #prisons #deportations
/12

"Last week's horrific Supreme Court decisions further undermine our rights and the rule of law, and the attacks on immigrants and refugees continue to get more brutal, while a new attack on birthright citizenship and naturalized citizens is underway."

~ Rebecca Solnit

#Trump#Republicans#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#BigBeautifulBill#EconomicElites#TaxCuts #oligarchy #immigrants #prisons #deportations
/11

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/cynicism-is-the-enemy-of-action/

"The Roberts Court let Pandora out of the box, and now there seems to be no putting everything back in."

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump#Republicans#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#BigBeautifulBill#EconomicElites#TaxCuts #oligarchy #immigrants #prisons #deportations
/10

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-supreme-courts-pandoras-box

"Having sold out hungry children in Louisiana, sick children in Oklahoma, and elderly nursing-home patients and their families in Vermont, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Colorado, Oregon, and 45 other states, Murkowski now is looking for someone—anyone—to bail her out. Make Lisa Murkowski remember this as the worst day of her career."

~ Charles Pierce

#Trump#Republicans#BigBeautifulBill#EconomicElites#TaxCuts #oligarchy #immigrants #prisons #deportations#Murkowski
/9

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a65269543/republican-big-beautiful-bill-passes-senate/

"The Republican Congress has signaled they will do whatever it takes to support the largest population expulsion in history."

~ Adam Gurri

Who needs healthcare or adequate food when there's the fun and thrill of seeing immigrants seized by masked goons, locked in cages in Florida swamps, then flown to hellhole countries?

#Trump#Republicans#BigBeautifulBill#EconomicElites#TaxCuts #oligarchy #immigrants #prisons #deportations
/8

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/mass-deportation-is-happening/

"What JD Vance is really doing here is telling MAGA voters who are set to lose health coverage due to Medicaid cuts not to think too much about that eventuality. It'll all be worth it once they get to see lots more migrants detained and frog-marched on to deportation planes."

~ Greg Sargent quoted by Greg Dworkin

#Trump#Republicans#BigBeautifulBill#EconomicElites#TaxCuts #oligarchy #immigrants #prisons #deportations
/7

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/2/2331247/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-A-final-in-NYC-a-disaster-from-the-Congressional-GOP

As Jonathan Cohn adds, "this legislation [is] arguably the biggest transfer of money from poor to rich in American history."

#Trump#Republicans#BigBeautifulBill#EconomicElites#TaxCuts #oligarchy #immigrants #prisons #deportations
/6

"The legislation Senate Republicans passed on Tuesday is probably going to kill a lot of people.

It sounds stark when you put it that way, but death is a stark thing. It’s also what can be reasonably expected from the GOP legislation, especially the cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act projected to leave nearly 12 million Americans newly uninsured."

~ Jonathan Cohn

#Trump#Republicans#BigBeautifulBill#EconomicElites#TaxCuts #oligarchy #immigrants
/5

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/an-ignominious-bill-passed-by-an-inglorious-body-afflict-afflicted-comfort-comfortable-trump-republicans-medicaid-bbb

"The bottom line: The bill is cruel. ...

Republicans are solely responsible for the cruelest, most destructive, and most inhumane bill in decades."

~ Jennifer Rubin

#Trump#Republicans#BigBeautifulBill#EconomicElites#TaxCuts #oligarchy #immigrants #prisons #deportations
/4

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-bottom-line-the-bill-is-cruel

"Republican Senators just passed the biggest wealth transfer, or theft, in U.S. history."

~ Wajahat Ali

#Trump#Republicans#BigBeautifulBill#EconomicElites#TaxCuts #oligarchy #immigrants #prisons #deportations
/3

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/its-a-big-billionaires-club-and-you