Is Trump screwing up with TBBBA? (Big Beautiful Bill)

Sometimes, a Republican Congress can be just as bad as the democrats. This bill is one of those times, I believe.

Uh oh.

I've got a hard time dealing with vote-buying. I condemned Biden's vote-buying efforts with his student loan scam, I condemned Sideshow Bob Ferguson’s unemployment for striker’s vote-buying scam and now I'm going to condemn Trump's vote-buying effort of $5000 for each steel worker.

Picking out certain segments of society to benefit with cash payments over every other segment is, IMHO, an unjustifiable vote-buying scam no matter who does it... or which president is in office.

We are staring at a $37 trillion dollar deficit that no one in government seems to care about. Musk and his gang discovered several billion dollars of waste, fraud and abuse yet oddly, that money doesn't seem to be much reflected in what has become known at TBBBA, aka, The Big Beautiful Bill Act.

The Administration has taken a lot of heat over Musk's effort, and Musk, rightly, points out that TBBBA doesn't seem to reflect much of any of it. Musk is standing on principle, the principle that he, like many of us, believed that Trump also shared... Now? Now they trade threats. Trump threatens to cut Musk's contract. Musk threatens to end supply rockets to the Space Station.

What was the point if the budget Trump is advocating doesn't seem to reflect much, if any, of what Musk and his group discovered?

Is it coincidence that Musk is exiting government the day after expressing his concerns over a budget which, by itself, will increase the deficit by between $2.4 trillion and $3.8 Trillion? And what about follow-on budgets and that inevitable deficit spending?

This is not, I believe, how government is supposed to run. It wasn't for Biden. And it isn't for Trump.

That is not to say the entirety of the bill sucks; on the contrary, it has a lot of good stuff in it, kinda like every budget that preceded it.

But a huge part of Trump's platform was to get deficit spending under control. This is not him, doing that.

I, for example, appreciate $5000 as much as the next guy. But how is this justified? Right or wrong, it's not going to be an expenditure appropriated by Congress.... so why was it, legally speaking, bad when Biden did the same kind of thing for student loans, but fine for Trump for steel workers?

I think this is a mistake. I think it hands an issue to the democrats who are masters of class warfare and who now find themselves in a position to point out that certain segments of our society outside the billionaire class are being picked as winners while others are left to wonder: why steel workers and not us?

I can't explain it with a straight face. And this action fails that test.