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uponit7771

(93,532 posts)
Fri Jul 4, 2025, 11:43 AM Jul 2025

Is there a timeline for BBB hurt on middle class to begin?

Is there a timeline for BBB hurt on middle class to begin?

Many of the hurtful items for the BBB MAGA postponed like the full effects of the tariffs.

Anyone know when the shit really starts to hit the fan for the middle class?

I know that Medicare work reqs start soon after midterms.

Thx in advance

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FirstLight

(15,771 posts)
2. ...I personally think ICE's budget tells us all we need to know...
Fri Jul 4, 2025, 11:48 AM
Jul 2025

They are far more interested in a police state than the other stuff. That shit is gonna take effect asap

newdeal2

(5,607 posts)
3. Businesses and organizations have to plan years in advance
Fri Jul 4, 2025, 11:49 AM
Jul 2025

I’d expect hospital and renewable energy related industries to start declining ahead of whatever the bill says.

roamer65

(37,974 posts)
6. The closures and mass layoffs will start this fall.
Fri Jul 4, 2025, 11:56 AM
Jul 2025

Businesses will move fast to cut their losses.

ForgedCrank

(3,120 posts)
4. When are
Fri Jul 4, 2025, 11:53 AM
Jul 2025

you most proud of your son or daughter? When they are sitting there watching TV, just out of the shower and at peace? Or when they just got dragged through the most brutal of life's test, looking ragged and beat having just prevailed with pride and humility?
Your country is America, and it will do just that.

dalton99a

(95,268 posts)
5. Half of ACA enrollees in many states will lose or drop coverage next year
Fri Jul 4, 2025, 11:53 AM
Jul 2025

Enhanced premium subsidies will expire this year, and ACA premiums are expected to rise 75% on average


Tadpole Raisin

(1,977 posts)
7. I was trying to look things up but could only find vague answers.
Fri Jul 4, 2025, 11:58 AM
Jul 2025

I imagine a lot of state officials are not having a very fun 4th since in upcoming weeks they will be studying the bill to find ways to work around the language if possible, raise more money, or transition people off benefits in a kinder way.

As people, communities, businesses and states start to crack republicans may try to patch things here and there but it will be an amalgamated mess (like the contiguous state exception I think Alaska got) since they only care about money not people. The republicans don’t believe government works, then get elected and prove it.

The mandated balanced budget requirements of the states are going to require hard choices. I only hope some of the language is amenable to interpretation (sure) or maybe it is possible to sue the government for some legal infraction.

moniss

(9,149 posts)
8. There is a video short on You Tube of
Fri Jul 4, 2025, 12:26 PM
Jul 2025

a woman who has a disabled mother under 65 who has been in a nursing home for years under Medicaid and SSI. She has received a notice from the Feds saying they have determined she is capable of working and she must now re-qualify for benefits which can be expected to take a long while given all of the staff cuts. I had mentioned this kind of tactic several times over the last months because it's what insurance companies are known to do to people on long term disability. They end your benefits claiming you can work and then put you through a long administrative process of demanding medical records, exams etc. and then they still deny you and make you go through a lengthy appeals process which can be years all together.

kerry-is-my-prez

(10,333 posts)
10. We used to go through hell to get seriously mentally ill clients SSD
Fri Jul 4, 2025, 02:54 PM
Jul 2025

They were diagnosed as Schizophrenic, Bipolar 1 and had been in a psych hospital (usually multiple times). As a social worker, we had a 3 day class with an elaborate test that tons many people with Masters Degrees failed. You had to send in a book about the client to them.

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