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Reagan's presidency had everyone waiting for nuclear armageddon to start because Ronnie was way too fucking gone to understand what that would mean

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this gem is from his first term

its always everybody else's fault, pages the human printer gave him prove he's blameless, every time

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Arthur Delaney and Dave Jamieson at HuffPost:

WASHINGTON — The Senate’s rules referee has thrown a roadblock in front of congressional Republicans’ plan to gut job protections for federal workers through their “big, beautiful bill.” The Senate’s parliamentarian ruled lawmakers cannot include the proposal under the fast-track procedures they’re using for President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill, Democrats said late Sunday.

It’s the latest in a series of decisions by the parliamentarian dismantling key provisions of the bill, including a major change to federal food benefits and an attempt to stop courts from enforcing injunctions against the Trump administration. The so-called budget reconciliation process allows Republicans to pass legislation through the Senate with a simple majority vote, which is a huge convenience, but there are rules against provisions deemed “extraneous” to the budget. It’s up to the parliamentarian to decide what counts. “Democrats are on the side of families and workers and are scrutinizing this bill piece by piece to ensure Republicans can’t use the reconciliation process to force their anti-worker policies on the American people,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), the top Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, said in a news release Sunday night.

The heart of the legislation is a $4 trillion package of tax cuts, with their cost partly offset by about $1 trillion in spending cuts, though the parliamentarian has been whittling those. The proposal struck Sunday essentially would have forced new federal workers to pay for traditional civil service protections by raising their retirement contributions unless they agreed to be “at-will” employees who could be terminated at any time. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that most new workers would give up their rights rather than pay for them. Unions have derided the plan as “extortion.” They warned it would turn the civil service into a spoils system wherein the president could reward loyalists and fire whomever he wanted. Democrats said the parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, also blocked several other GOP provisions meant to undermine federal workers. (MacDonough’s decisions typically aren’t made public.)

Yet another provision to meet the Byrd Bath: Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough nixes a proposal from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that would have forced new federal workers to pay for traditional civil service protections.

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One of the greatest songs about Pompeii

Siouxsie Sioux back in the 70s

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But just you wait, Johnson has declared that Congress has abdicated that authority too

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Trump appears to have made the military decision without consulting Congress, which (under Article I of the Constitution) has warmaking powers.

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https://trumpgolftrack.com/

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I don't want anything to do with America so long as Rapey McOrangePedo is president, but I'm stuck with the very squirrelly election results in 2024.

I hope he dies from snorting too much adderall.

And soon.

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