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Republicans just passed “the worst bill in modern American history” (www.motherjones.com)

submitted 21 hours ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

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It takes from the poorest and gives to the richest—among other things.

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[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I was talking about The Enabling Act.

The reason almost everything in the MAGA agenda is in this one bill is because it's the senate-filibuster-proof yearly budget bill. Any other bill the MAGAts try to shove through can be blocked by the dems.

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 6 points 14 hours ago

Ah, misunderstood. You're right then, as far as it goes. The Democrats could theoretically filibuster any other bills, but I'll believe it when I see it. So far they've demonstrated the spine of a flatworm.