Jul 01, 2025 7:28:19 pm
One vote, ONE. JD Vance was the tie-breaker after three GOP defections. Thom Tillis, Rand Paul, Susan Collins. 51-50. The House only managed to pass the initial bill by one solitary vote, 215-214, and because of reconciliation, only 51 Senators were needed instead of the usual 60. The bill now heads back to the House for final approval, two thirds of the journey being completed. Let me remind you in case it wasn’t clear, ONE VOTE.
The vast majority of Americans are being robbed in broad daylight. The bill is extremely unpopular, as the rich will get even richer, and the poor, who cares about the poor? Prosperity Politics at its most cynical and destructive. They claim to be followers of Jesus, they claim to be good people, they claim to be sincere and filled with the Holy Spirit, Qhristians on a divine mission from God to save the world.
It’s all bs, they don’t give a damn about anyone but themselves. They’ve been given countless opportunities to prove their worth, to display some backbone, to stand up for what is right. Yet every single time they surrender their agency to a force so malignant and dark, that it makes one wonder if this wasn’t part of their plan all along?
THE SWAMP ALLIGATOR: Senate Republicans passed their version of the megabill funding President Donald Trump’s agenda on Tuesday, overcoming concerns from all corners of their caucus in the process. Senators spent all day and night Monday on the floor, finalizing the grab bag of MAGA demands and fiscal conservative policies while attempting to assuage moderate GOP members. In the end, the bill passed 50-50, with three Republicans and all Democrats voting against final passage and Vice President JD Vance breaking the tie.
If enacted, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which gives to the rich and takes from the poor, will be one of the most awfully lopsided bills in history in that regard. Other big-ticket items include an enormous boost to Trump’s mass deportation program, a surge in defense spending and a string of tax cuts Trump promised that are only due to last through his term.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune pulled together the votes needed to advance the bill after nearly a month of private back-door negotiations and public pressure. Heading to the floor before the final vote, he appeared unsure if he could pull out a passing result, telling reporters he hoped to have enough support.
That came just after one of the final holdouts, Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski, finally signaled that she would vote for the bill after a closed-door meeting with GOP leadership. The senator reportedly was able to secure last-second carve-outs to protect Alaskans from deep Medicaid and food assistance cuts before casting her vote for the measure. – Hayes Brown for MSNBC.
Guess what Trump was doing while the vote counting was underway? He visited the migrant detention facility ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in Florida with Ron DeSantis and Kristi Noem. Billions of dollars will become available to fund his private ICE army if the House passes the bill, tens of billions.
ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ: President Donald Trump warned American criminals they may be the next inhabitants of the ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ facility and deported out of the country.
Trump raved about a migrant detention center built in the Everglades swampland and surrounded by alligators. It was designed to house illegal immigrants ahead of mass deportations.
The president also expressed his desire to have more such facilities built around the country. And he mussed that home-born ‘bad people’ may be his next target as he wants to get them ‘the hell out’ of the United States.
‘We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time,’ he said. ‘Some of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that’ll be the next job.’
It’s not the first time Trump has speculated about deporting Americans convicted of crimes. In April, he suggested sending them to the notorious El Salvadorian prison currently holding migrants deported from the U.S.
Trump said he’d like to see similar facilities in ‘many states,’ adding Florida would getting a second one ‘and probably a couple more.’ ‘At some point they might morph into a system where you’re going to keep it for a long time,’ he added.
The president noted that ‘I couldn’t care less’ that the facilities were controversial. Trump looked visibly pleased with the setup during his tour, observing stacks of bunk beds behind chain-linked fencing inside an air conditioned tent in a Florida swamp.
Democrats have slammed the facility as a ‘makeshift prison camp,’ while environmentalists have questioned its impact on the local climates and Native Americans protested it being built on sacred ground.
The controversial detention facility was spearheaded by Florida Republican leaders and garnered its nickname due to its location: it sits about 37 miles from Miami in the middle of a swamp surrounded by snakes and alligators — and in an area of the state that is prone to hurricanes.
The $450 million-per-year detention facility, which will be able to hold up to 3,000 undocumented immigrants, was built in just seven days. There are only tents and trailers – no brick-or-mortar buildings. It was constructed on land belonging to Miami-Dade County and seized by state officials over local leaders’ objections.
It sits next to an 11,000 foot airstrip. DeSantis said the runway there can be used to quickly fly undocumented immigrants to third countries if deportation is deemed appropriate. By Emily Goodin for DMail.