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Big Beautiful Bill passes the House 218-214

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  • DucksFCDucksFC Member Posts: 3,383

    3 trillion more to the debt to own the libs

  • EverettChrisEverettChris Member Posts: 7,338 Standard Supporter
    edited July 3

    Best they could get done. More work later on specific budgets. Som ethos wasn’t an annual budget bill.

    TrollFS now doesn’t like government spending is what I read.

    Cultist

  • DucksFCDucksFC Member Posts: 3,383

    never did. forgot this was the GOOD kind of government spending though.

  • EverettChrisEverettChris Member Posts: 7,338 Standard Supporter

    My unwanted shadow replied so quickly I couldn’t even edit my post.

  • EverettChrisEverettChris Member Posts: 7,338 Standard Supporter

    Jeffries did everyone a favor by reminding America what Drama Queens look like and how they lead today’s Democrat party.

  • EsophagealFecesEsophagealFeces Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 12,947 Swaye's Wigwam

    This is legitimately true. Dollar Store Obama hurt his own cause. Dumbass.

  • WestlinnDuckWestlinnDuck Member Posts: 17,106 Standard Supporter

    When the dazzler tries to claim that Team Dazzler and the ilk he votes for are the actual budget hawks and caretakers of the nation's spending just remember how much they hate grifting and fraud and waste in government. Just like the dementia patient's cabal carefully vetted illegal aliens.

    https://ace.mu.nu/

    James Varney: "Biden" Authorized $42 Billion In Graft to His Political "Environmental" Allies in Just the Last Two Working Days of His Potemkin Presidency

    —Ace

    Bumped. I took the post down when the BBB vote came in.

    $42 billion in two days.

    $42 billion in 48 hours. Less when you consider they were only working, at most, 10 or 12 hour days.

    In its last two working days, the Biden administration's Energy Department signed off on nearly $42 billion for green energy projects --

     

    a sum that exceeded the total amount its Loan Programs Office (LPO) had put out in the past decade.

    In two days, they pushed more graft to their leftwing political allies than they did, in total, over the course of ten years.

    The frenzied activity on Jan. 16 and 17, 2025, capped a spending binge that saw the LPO approve at least $93 billion in current and future disbursements after Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election in November, according to documents provided by the department to RealClearInvestigations. It appears that Biden officials were rushing to deploy billions in approved funding in anticipation that the incoming Trump administration would seek to redirect uncommitted money away from clean energy projects.


    The agreements were made despite a warning from the department's inspector general, urging the loan office to suspend operations in December over concerns that post-election loans could present conflicts of interest.

    The Biden Crime Family specializes in conflicts of interest.

    In just a few months, some of the deals have already become dicey, leading to fears that the Biden administration has created multiple Solyndras, the green energy company that went bankrupt after the Obama administration gave it $570 million. These deals include:

    Sunnova, a rooftop solar outfit that thus far had $382 million of its $3.3 billion loan guaranteed, filed for bankruptcy this month. The company did not respond to a request for comment.

    Li-Cycle, a battery recycling facility, had a $445 million loan approved in November, but since then, the company was put up for sale and has filed for bankruptcy. The Energy Department said no money has been disbursed on that deal. Li-Cycle did not respond to a request for comment.

    A $705 million loan was approved on Jan. 17 for Zum Energy, an electric school bus company in California, and its "Project Marigold." At $350,000 and more, electric school buses currently cost more than twice as much as their diesel counterparts. So far, Zum has received $21.7 million from the government, according to usaspending.gov. The company did not respond to a request for comment.

    A $9.63 billion Blue Oval SK loan on Jan. 16 was the second largest post-election deal, topped only by a $15 billion loan the next day to Pacific Gas & Electric, with most of that for renewables. The Blue Oval project in Kentucky -- a joint venture between Ford Motor Co. and a South Korean entity -- has been dealing with numerous workplace complaints, and construction of a second EV battery manufacturing plant there has been delayed. More than $7 billion has been obligated on that deal, according to the Energy Department. Blue Oval did not respond to a request for comment.

    The money and the hasty way in which it was earmarked have drawn the attention of the Trump administration. "It is extremely concerning how many dozens of billions of dollars were rushed out the door without proper due diligence in the final days of the Biden administration," Energy Secretary Chris Wright said in a statement to RCI. "DOE is undertaking a thorough review of financial assistance that identifies waste of taxpayer dollars."

    The enormous sums came from the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, which injected $400 billion into the LPO, a previously sleepy Energy Department branch originally intended to spur nuclear energy projects. That total represented more than 10 times the amount the LPO had ever committed in any fiscal year of its existence. Prior to the post-election blowout, the office's biggest fiscal year was 2024, when it committed $34.8 billion, records show.

    Even with the rush to push billions out the door in its last months, close to $300 billion of the Inflation Reduction Act money remains uncommitted by the LPO. Trump administration officials have already nixed some smaller deals. Secretary Wright recently urged Congress to keep the money in place as the LPO now aims to use it to further the Trump administration's energy policy, particularly with nuclear projects.

    Note that this is in addition to the $20 billion graft bonanza you already know about.

    That unprecedented gusher of cash from the LPO echoes the efforts of the Biden administration's Environmental Protection Agency to push $20 billion out the door before it left office. As RCI has previously reported, the EPA -- which had never been a consequential grant-making operation -- was tasked with awarding $27 billion in Inflation Reduction Act funding through the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and Solar For All programs. It did so in less than six months in 2024, including an unorthodox arrangement in which Biden officials parked some $20 billion outside the Treasury's control.

     

    That money was earmarked for a handful of nonprofits, some of which had skimpy assets and were linked with politically connected directors.

    Yeah I'll bet.

  • QuietcowskeeQuietcowskee Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 4,110 Swaye's Wigwam

    Congrats to all our ICE agent half-brains. Keep on “just following orders.” 🫡🫡🫡

  • RaceBannonRaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 112,293 Founders Club

    Do you have a problem with enforcement of the law?

  • Pitchfork51Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,577

    I’m just happy that liberals finally got the investment in our immigration system that they’ve been saying they’ve always wanted.

    Now we can get these backlogs and delays sorted out. Big win for the left imo.

  • SledogSledog Member Posts: 36,624 Standard Supporter

    The guy that voted multiple times to eliminate the debt ceiling and spend unknown trillions has a point?

  • DucksFCDucksFC Member Posts: 3,383
    edited July 3

    Sludge in one sentence and Gasbag in a billion sum it all up - "Dems overspend on things so let's do it too"

  • RaceBannonRaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 112,293 Founders Club

    Remember when planned parenthood said they didn't use tax dollars for abortion?

  • QuietcowskeeQuietcowskee Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 4,110 Swaye's Wigwam

    At least us boomers had a good run, right guys!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

  • RaceBannonRaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 112,293 Founders Club

    Was there a point here?

  • pawzpawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,226 Founders Club

    Establishment RINOs spend money like Democrats. News at 11.

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  • UW_Doog_BotUW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 17,713 Swaye's Wigwam
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