Big Beautiful Bill: Disaster to Americans & Rule of Law
Trump’s Big Beautiful Disastrous Bill passed by House Republicans guts Medicare, Medicaid, gives outrageous tax breaks to the RICH, adds trillions to the defect and cripples courts ability to reign in Trump’s lawlessness and illegal Executive Orders
Big Beautiful Disastrous Bill Cuts Medicaid
The House GOP and Speaker Mike Johnson are fast-tracking a Medicaid reconciliation bill that is over 1100 pages long onto the House floor. The bill would represent the largest cut to Medicaid since it was created in 1965 and could lead to loss of coverage for millions of Americans, in part due to new work requirements that would add onerous red tape to the program.
Big Beautiful Disastrous Budget Reconciliation Bill
Why Trump agenda bill means you’ll be paying more for health care
Trump’s Big Beautiful Disastrous Bill, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives and heads now to the Senate. Representative Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) speaks with MSNBC’s Alex Witt about how the spending bill would negatively impact the middle class, shares his thoughts on the administration’s attempt to ban Harvard University from enrolling international students, expresses his concerns about Trump’s crypto dinner, and more.
Trump’s Big Beautiful Budget is a declaration of war on everyone in the US but the very rich.
Remember when Republicans said they wouldn’t cut Medicare
The Trump-Republican budget bill is the work of ‘sadistic zombies’
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell details how Donald Trump and Republicans are trying to take health care away from millions by cutting Medicaid and Medicare to pass the “cruelest budget bill ever passed in American history” as he accepts a jet from Qatar in “Donald Trump’s Marie Antoinette moment of obliviousness to the suffering he is causing.”
Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ ends US democracy.
Big Beautiful Disastrous Bill Cuts Medicare by $500 BILLION: Leaving States with No Hospitals
TRUMP BILL CLOSES 742 RURAL HOSPITALS
Lawmakers speak out against Trump’s budget bill
Republicans sneak provision into budget bill curbing court power
Trump’s alarming escalation in rhetoric against the judiciary
Not Only Will This Bill Cut Medicaid It Will End Free Speech
Opinion | The GOP’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ has an ugly way of protecting Trump
The House GOP caucus is using the recently passed “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” to try to further insulate President Trump from judicial accountability.
Per the above article: “Republicans snuck in a little noticed but very important provision into the megabill that would effectively remove from judges the ability to hold litigants who defy court orders in contempt. If the provision becomes law, it would be an unmitigated disaster for the Constitution and the country.
At the end of page 562 of the 1,118-page bill, a brief section entitled “Restriction on Enforcement” says: No court of the United States may enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c) whether issued prior to, on, or subsequent to the date of enactment of this section.”
Rule 65(c) says judges may only issue preliminary injunctions or temporary restraining orders if litigants provide a security bond “in an amount that the court considers proper to pay the costs and damages sustained by any party found to have been wrongfully enjoined or restrained.” Judges have wide discretion on that amount, and, as The Intercept’s Shawn Musgrave notes, the rule requiring such a financial guarantee is “generally relaxed when the lawsuit alleges illegal conduct by the government.”
But no more, if House Republicans get their way, under this provision, anyone seeking an injunction or restraining order would have to put up a financial bond, in an amount determined by the judge in the case, if the litigants wanted to keep alive that judge’s contempt power. As Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Berkeley School of Law, writes,“Those seeking such court orders generally do not have the resources to post a bond, and insisting on it would immunize unconstitutional government conduct from judicial review.”
Whether the provision survives the Senate is unclear. The megabill is being passed under the budget reconciliation process, which is supposed to be used only for fiscal matters. A change to the rules around contempt would appear to be disqualified under that process, but already Senate Republicans have shown willingness to play fast and loose with the chamber’s procedures. If it does survive, the provision will go a long way toward neutering the courts and do more to insulate Trump from accountability than anything since the Supreme Court’s scandalous decision all but eliminating the president’s criminal liability.
This provision was clearly written with the current administration in mind. Note its seemingly odd application only to injunctions and restraining orders rather than to any use of the contempt power. And recall the number of times since Jan. 20 that courts have issued them to stop the administration from violating the law”.
