"Trump is hoping for a permanent "security fund" to make some form of his fed occupation of Washington, D.C. permanemt"

[Miles Archer]

Trump's loyalists are already planning for a second round of reconciliation cuts and spending, as a sequel to Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" that cemented trillions in tax cuts on the rich while slashing money from Medicaid and food stamps.

But Wall Street Journal editorial board member Kimberley Strassel has no confidence that this will be anything good, writing Thursday, "All fear the growing prospect of a small, ugly sequel."

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"They may well get their wish for a sequel, as Republicans as a whole grow way more interested in a Reconciliation 2.0," wrote Strassel. "Only this being today’s GOP, the motivation isn’t spending reform. All the talk instead is about new goodies, industrial policy and protecting home-state interests. The very real risk is that fiscal conservatives tee up a vehicle that becomes a grab-bag of new spending and bad policy, with little to no deficit reduction."

As an example, she noted, Trump is hoping for a permanent "security fund" to make some form of his federal occupation of Washington, D.C. permanent, as well as his proposal to require drug companies to charge no more for drugs than the cheapest rate they charge in other countries — which she argues would stifle drug research.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-bill-2673886172/

[TnDem]

1. As far as drug prices go

I am sick and tired of paying 10,000% of what someone in Europe pays for a drug just because "we" have to fund the research for the rest of the world.

It's bullshit...If the drug companies want to do "research", they can do it elsewhere on their own dime.

[Lovie777]

2. And when Dem President wins?.............