It is fascinating that, with so many cuts, they have the major increase there. Part of me wonders if it is a reaction to bird flu losses and the investment required to get more laying birds. The mess with that (as a chicken owner) is when you do liquidate chicken flocks it takes about nine months to get from chickens to laying, and the first eggs are small. My birds free range and I have been blessed that they have remained healthy. A little spoiled, maybe (definitely demanding), but healthy.
I trusted your analysis, though I guess I could go read through it. One of the big problems with this bill is that they are trying to do more than just budget with it. There would be less to wade through if they would pass laws separately, but no one wants to sign on to any policies individually because they know it will be easier to come after them at election time. With this they can plead ignorance, being overwhelmed, etc., still get supported by (or at least not have a challenger supported by) MAGA PAC, and hope to keep their jobs. It is so cynical - I just hope more people wake up to it.
You are an amazing person to do this! Thank you! I agree that things are crazy complex. I realize sometimes it is almost necessary - it seems part of learning to be an attorney is how flexible the law is due to loopholes accidentally or purposely left. A training I went to online about why we need to care what happens to the Farm Bill was very enlightening.
I live in rural Missouri, know farmers of a few stripes, and thought I had a hobby farm until I found out I was supposed to make money with it! 😂
Thank you for attempting this Herculean task. My problem (and likely your too) is that after reading a proposal, I don’t know whether a change that has been proposed is good or bad since I have no context at all in which to put it. I really wish congresspeople would pool their aides and interns and break up the bill among this pool so that each part could be thoroughly researched, nit picked and put into its larger context so that we could understand its skewed impact better and expose its flaws more clearly and speak more loudly to the public about why it should not be adopted. Ms Greene should be ashamed to admit that she is voting for something she hasn’t read. I am always appalled at the contrast between the informed and pointed questioning by certain members of the committee she chairs whom she interrupts at the end of their time by louder and louder banging that damned little gavel and intoning “your time is up !” in her bored nasal way. It makes you want to say—why don’t you go get an ice cream and let the true legislators finish doing their work ?…
It’s a lot of digging because (so far) most of it has to do with amendments of other acts and laws. So I’m trying to track those down and see what is hidden there in a lot of legalese and what they hope will be too complicated and too dry to read
Thanks for doing this. Not much talk about section 70302 and what’s buried ‘in restriction of enforcement’. I saw Katie Couric post about this and how it has to do with federal judges not being able to hold government employees in contempt of court. The bill is trying to sneak this in. ☹️
I did too and it is smarmy and sneaky and alarming and wrong in principle. But I also heard that a section like that can’t be included in a budget reconciliation type bill as all parts have to deal directly with the budget. So although it is there now it will get stripped out. But it is nasty that it got snuck in there anyway. Elizabeth Warren has been addressing that too
Thanks for doing this
Welcome ;)
I am not a US Citizen, living in The Netherlands and sometimes i can’t believe what is going on in the US.
RESIST and stay strong!!!!
Thank you, this is how we fight back!
Neither can we. It is astonishing and swift. But we are creating cracks in their facade and in their process.
A DISASTER!!! They are Criminals! Murders killing children to take their food away. Trump had already killed so many people in the COVID time.
Deportation is also killing people.
Time to lock TRUMP and his GOP GANG up for EVER!’nnn
Thank you very much for taking the time to do this. I know this had to take a long time. We greatly appreciate it.
You’re welcome, more soon :)
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Animal Disease Prevention and Management Why $30million to $233 million? That is a major change.
I’m still researching that. It’s meant to be very confusing but I want to make sure I got it right.
It is fascinating that, with so many cuts, they have the major increase there. Part of me wonders if it is a reaction to bird flu losses and the investment required to get more laying birds. The mess with that (as a chicken owner) is when you do liquidate chicken flocks it takes about nine months to get from chickens to laying, and the first eggs are small. My birds free range and I have been blessed that they have remained healthy. A little spoiled, maybe (definitely demanding), but healthy.
The link to the bill is at the bottom. Feel free to take a look and let me know if I’m getting that wrong. Felt really weird to me too.
I trusted your analysis, though I guess I could go read through it. One of the big problems with this bill is that they are trying to do more than just budget with it. There would be less to wade through if they would pass laws separately, but no one wants to sign on to any policies individually because they know it will be easier to come after them at election time. With this they can plead ignorance, being overwhelmed, etc., still get supported by (or at least not have a challenger supported by) MAGA PAC, and hope to keep their jobs. It is so cynical - I just hope more people wake up to it.
It’s about 5x as complicated and dense as Project 2025. everything references other bills and amendments so it’s taking a lot of digging.
You are an amazing person to do this! Thank you! I agree that things are crazy complex. I realize sometimes it is almost necessary - it seems part of learning to be an attorney is how flexible the law is due to loopholes accidentally or purposely left. A training I went to online about why we need to care what happens to the Farm Bill was very enlightening.
I live in rural Missouri, know farmers of a few stripes, and thought I had a hobby farm until I found out I was supposed to make money with it! 😂
One big goal has been making DOGE cuts and Project 2025 law without passing separate laws specifically enacting any of them.
Thank you for attempting this Herculean task. My problem (and likely your too) is that after reading a proposal, I don’t know whether a change that has been proposed is good or bad since I have no context at all in which to put it. I really wish congresspeople would pool their aides and interns and break up the bill among this pool so that each part could be thoroughly researched, nit picked and put into its larger context so that we could understand its skewed impact better and expose its flaws more clearly and speak more loudly to the public about why it should not be adopted. Ms Greene should be ashamed to admit that she is voting for something she hasn’t read. I am always appalled at the contrast between the informed and pointed questioning by certain members of the committee she chairs whom she interrupts at the end of their time by louder and louder banging that damned little gavel and intoning “your time is up !” in her bored nasal way. It makes you want to say—why don’t you go get an ice cream and let the true legislators finish doing their work ?…
It’s a lot of digging because (so far) most of it has to do with amendments of other acts and laws. So I’m trying to track those down and see what is hidden there in a lot of legalese and what they hope will be too complicated and too dry to read
Thanks for doing this Ellie!
Thanks for reading!
The rich are the only grifters allowed? Thank you for reporting.
My pleasure, thanks for reading ;)
This is a big beautiful breakdown - thank you for taking the time.
Thank you for reading, it means a lot!
Thank you so much for your time and dedication to the good fight. I am sharing far and wide! Greatly appreciated!!💙
Thank you, too!
Thx Ms Ellie; don’t stop. You Rock!🫵😎👍
Thank you!
Thank you!!🙏🏻
Thank you for reading!
Thank you easy to make calls now
Thank you too
Thanks for the summarization. I have a question. What is the significance of the year 2031, cited in the bill?
I think it’s just a typical spam of time. Most of the acts that they are amending ended their spam in 2024 or 2025 and these amendments are extensions
Excellent. Thank you 🙏
Thank you for reading ;)
Thanks for doing this. Not much talk about section 70302 and what’s buried ‘in restriction of enforcement’. I saw Katie Couric post about this and how it has to do with federal judges not being able to hold government employees in contempt of court. The bill is trying to sneak this in. ☹️
I did too and it is smarmy and sneaky and alarming and wrong in principle. But I also heard that a section like that can’t be included in a budget reconciliation type bill as all parts have to deal directly with the budget. So although it is there now it will get stripped out. But it is nasty that it got snuck in there anyway. Elizabeth Warren has been addressing that too