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It did pass out of committee Sunday night…

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How to Take Medicaid from Millions of Americans, in Less Than 72 Hours

There’s a reason Republicans are in such a rush to get Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” through Congress.
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GOP leaders said they hope to try again on Sunday night. That presumably means they are spending the weekend frantically negotiating in private, trying to secure votes from a handful of holdout Republicans—all in the hopes of keeping Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” of spending reductions and tax cuts moving through the House.

Delays like this have plagued the Republican effort ever since House Speaker Mike Johnson first vowed to have legislation on Trump’s desk by Memorial Day. And if you’ve been following this saga in the press—or here at The Breakdown!—you’ve heard a lot about how the delays are a sign of internal GOP division, especially when it comes to the scale of those Medicaid cuts.

But the focus on the delays can be a bit of a distraction. Because right now the real question is not why the Republicans are moving so slowly but why they are moving so quickly—and what they don’t want you to see.
 
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Target employee exposes MASSIVE tariff price hike for popular items

Consumer advocates and CEOs have been warning that prices will rise for months. Now, at Target, employees are seeing the first big shifts.
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For months, big retailers have been warning that prices will rise.

Now, thanks to insider information from Target workers, the extent of the raises are becoming apparent. Staff say it is just the beginning.

A $9.99 USB-C cord from the store's in-house Heyday brand is now ringing up at $17.99, according to a self-identified employee on Reddit.

'It's happening,' the worker wrote, sharing a photo of the price tag update. 'All of Heyday is going up.'

The spike — an 80 percent increase — is being blamed on the latest wave of tariffs linked to President Donald Trump's trade policies.

Target's price rises come after Walmart on Thursday confirmed that it is raising prices this month as a direct result of tariffs.
 
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Target employee exposes MASSIVE tariff price hike for popular items

Consumer advocates and CEOs have been warning that prices will rise for months. Now, at Target, employees are seeing the first big shifts.
www.dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk

For months, big retailers have been warning that prices will rise.

Now, thanks to insider information from Target workers, the extent of the raises are becoming apparent. Staff say it is just the beginning.

A $9.99 USB-C cord from the store's in-house Heyday brand is now ringing up at $17.99, according to a self-identified employee on Reddit.

'It's happening,' the worker wrote, sharing a photo of the price tag update. 'All of Heyday is going up.'

The spike — an 80 percent increase — is being blamed on the latest wave of tariffs linked to President Donald Trump's trade policies.

Target's price rises come after Walmart on Thursday confirmed that it is raising prices this month as a direct result of tariffs.
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I was told repeatedly by Trump that his tariffs would not increase prices. Did Donald just lie?
 
I will say one thing..... TV's are insanely cheap. I was at Target today and you could get a 65 inch Vizio for 379 bucks.
I bought a 75 inch Vizio like 7 years ago for 1500 bucks.
 
fishonjazz said:
I will say one thing..... TV's are insanely cheap. I was at Target today and you could get a 65 inch Vizio for 379 bucks.
I bought a 75 inch Vizio like 7 years ago for 1500 bucks.
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I'm hoping OLED comes down in price a bit still, maybe for black Friday this year. Time for an upgrade. Eyeing an 83" OLED.
 
We’re going to need a second Revolution eventually. This isn’t it, but it may help lead us there…”The members of the Republican majority are behaving not like traditional conservatives but like revolutionaries who, having seized power, believe they must smash up the old order as quickly as possible before the country recognizes what is happening”.

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The Largest Upward Transfer of Wealth in American History

House Republicans voted to advance a bill that would offer lavish tax cuts for the rich while slashing benefits for the poor.
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House Republicans worked through the night to advance a massive piece of legislation that might, if enacted, carry out the largest upward transfer of wealth in American history.

That is not a side effect of the legislation, but its central purpose. The “big, beautiful bill” would pair huge cuts to food assistance and health insurance for low-income Americans with even larger tax cuts for affluent ones.

Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, warned that the bill’s passage, by a 215–214 margin, would mark the moment the Republicans ensured the loss of their majority in the midterm elections. That may be so. But the Republicans have not pursued this bill for political reasons. They are employing a majority that they suspect is temporary to enact deep changes to the social compact.

The minority party always complains that the majority is “jamming through” major legislation, however deliberate the process may be. (During the year-long debate over the Affordable Care Act, Republicans farcically bemoaned the “rushed” process that consumed months of public hearings.) In this case, however, the indictment is undeniable. The House cemented the bill’s majority support with a series of last-minute changes whose effects have not been digested. The Congressional Budget Office has not even had time to calculate how many millions of Americans would lose health insurance, nor by how many trillions of dollars the deficit would increase.

The heedlessness of the process is an indication of its underlying fanaticism. The members of the Republican majority are behaving not like traditional conservatives but like revolutionaries who, having seized power, believe they must smash up the old order as quickly as possible before the country recognizes what is happening.
 
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