A bitter war waged by blue-state Republicans over the state-and-local-tax deduction, or SALT, is nearing a final resolution, according to people involved in the talks, after GOP leaders offered to slightly sweeten their offer. The group huddled Tuesday evening with Speaker Mike Johnson and emerged with a tentative deal that has an endorsement from Trump.

And to win over hard-line conservatives pushing for more spending cuts, Johnson’s team is working to accelerate the phase-out of clean-energy tax credits enacted under former President Joe Biden. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise told reporters Tuesday night that the bill would “limit dramatically any new projects from starting” using Inflation Reduction Act incentives.

“I think everybody on both...

With all its deficiencies, overspending and misplaced spending, it is, nevertheless, all we got. There is only one man who can navigate us out of existential fiscal ruin, and that man is Donald Trump. No one else can.

We have to support this bill because there's no other way, no other bill, no other chance.

How many pages is this bill?

A Republican majority is about to lock in the Obamacare Medicaid expansion and AOC’s Green New Deal.

Yes. It’s an essential step towards a functioning Country. First step, imperfect step but it creates the circumstances for further steps.

For God’s sake, the Revolutionary War took seven years against an enemy that wore uniforms and had one mother of a long supply line.

This enemy is far different. Has money to burn. Hides in plain sight and is well entrenched. Has foreign allies aplenty.

Did you really think Deep State would be delenda est in a day?!

Reread Tom Paine’s “The American Crisis” and find some patience. As Paine put it...

“...Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated...”

I hear ya. But actually increasing the deficit is not the way to start fighting this battle.

Until the use of baseline budgeting is ended, that’s a given.

But in Trump we have an awesome general waging our war against Deep State.

I’ll leave the strategy to him. :-)

In politics, you are often disappointed. You often vote for the lesser of two evils. Our strategy often is merely to restrain the growth of government so the economy grows faster than the government.

Politics is often like being in the trenches during WWI, a battle of attrition. Not like rolling across France with General Patton during WWII.

My heart is with the deficit hawks of the Republican Party, fighting for real cuts in spending and reform of our entitlement programs. But, my head is with the Republican leadership and their sense of what it is possible for us to actually achieve in this bill.

Not sure most never read them anyway

“I was elected to lead, not to read.”

DOGE the bill...even if doge doesn’t have an honest track record.

Here’s my take...
I like to read what is in the bills that will affect my very existance..

If thew big beautiful cannot be read and understood by the average american in 24 hours, then it is not beautiful, just big...

If we need to pass it to find out what is in it.....

The hack seldom read any bills they kick it around and wait for the highest bidder for their vote.

They are the Good Old Boy Club members.

Yes many of the public know more about them than they do.

DOGE is only beginning. Their estimate was cuts found through June 2026, I believe. I think they are working on the BBB and I have not lost hope that the DOGE cuts are next.