? BREAKING: The House Republican spending bill has passed.
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 26, 2025
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BREAKING: Every Democrat in the House of Representatives just voted against No tax on tips and No tax on overtime. pic.twitter.com/zaMXmefHbQ
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 26, 2025
I thought it was a slow news day yesterday.
There wasn’t much news until last night when the House passed its budget resolution.
“The House on Tuesday narrowly passed a Republican budget resolution that calls for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and a $2 trillion reduction in federal spending over a decade, clearing the way for major elements of President Trump’s domestic agenda.
The nearly party-line vote of 217 to 215 teed up a bitter fight within the G.O.P. over which federal programs to slash to partially finance a huge tax cut that would provide its biggest benefits to rich Americans.
It came after a head-spinning hour in which Republican leaders tried to put down a revolt among conservatives who wanted deeper spending cuts, failed to do so, canceled the budget vote and then reversed course minutes later and summoned lawmakers to call the roll. …”
This is the first step in passing the big reconciliation bill.
CNN:
“Speaker Mike Johnson pulled off a stunning turnaround Tuesday night to rescue a critical vote to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda that had seemed doomed just moments earlier.
Surprising even some of his critics, Johnson and his leadership team capped hours of drama in the Capitol by successfully flipping multiple Republican holdouts to pass a budget blueprint that will mark the first step toward moving Trump’s ambitious agenda forward. With help from last-minute phone calls from Trump, GOP leaders spent all of Tuesday in a furious pressure campaign to win backing for their plan.
“The world didn’t end today. But I do see the edge,” Rep. Pat Fallon, a Texas Republican, said of the whiplash in the House. …”
Major tax cuts are coming.
Mike Johnson and John Thune are going to wrap Trump’s domestic agenda – tax cuts, energy, defense and immigration – into the “one big, beautiful bill” and pass it through reconciliation.
Note: Last year, I predicted that budget reconciliation would be used to renew the Trump tax cuts and to fund border security like Biden used it to pass the American Rescue Plan. Ignore the activists who are whining and spreading disinformation about the pace of deportations. Mass deportations aren’t possible yet because there are only like 6,000 ICE agents. This will be fixed in the reconciliation bill.
First off I am pissed at this bill. We didn’t elect Trump to gut our military but to build it back up to face down China. Second, we didn’t elect Trump to gut the Consumer Protection Bureau, reduce Social Security, or privatize the US government. Thirdly, the GOP as usual is gutting taxes for the rich. I will wait to see how much and where the gutting is and what privatization is occurring but this sounds like full on stupid financier backed take over of the government. It sounds like Thatcher on steroids, and that ended up not working well for Britain.
“Mass deportations aren’t possible yet because there are only like 6,000 ICE agents.”
There is no ICEing our way out of illegal immigration. The processing now required by courts, regulations, directives, etc makes it impossible to have mass deportations. ICE is required to detain and hold illegals caught in the interior to prove they are illegals. Detention facilities alone will take years to build. Then their are the issues around internal enforcement.
The reason ICE focuses on criminal illegal aliens is because the proof of illegal alien status has already been determined by the local courts, who have already jailed or imprisoned the perps. All ICE has to do then is be a taxi service and deport the illegal. ICE is looking at illegal alien absconders and criminals out on bench warrants. Thats easy. Its entirely different than searching for and finding and rounding up illegal aliens who have not yet been arrested for committing a crime inside the US.
So, the difficult part is finding illegal aliens not on bail of some sort from the courts and finding a cause to allow them to be arrested. That involves targeting business, houses, and communities who have illegal aliens and ensuring the people living and working there are illegal aliens. Sure there are Wetbacks who still operate in little camps like the Wets of old. But most live in cities where they are the majority of large regions in the city. Houses, shops, retails, restaurants, professions, businesses, etc all partially if not wholly lived, worked and staffed by illegals with some sort of legal cutout as the titular operator. The illegals have fraudulent documents that are hard to prove let alone find which will allow an ICE agent team to walk in and start rounding up Wets.
You guys in Alabama don’t know how entrenched and large the illegal alien community is in Southwest, Pacific Coast, North East, and major metro areas in between. Northern Virginia alone is rampant with illegal aliens. There are several illegal alien communities that are now built upon old ancient White Villages as far South as areas surrounding Virginia Military Institute. Similarly, North Carolina is pockmarked with illegal alien settlements. There are millions and millions and millions of illegal aliens who now have anchor babies living and working throughout the US. Yes, in Alabama you might roll up most in the farm villages and camps. But, elsewhere, not so easy.
45,000,000 illegal aliens, 12,500,000 illegal alien children, score of million of anchor babies. You are not going to ICE your way out of this. Not with 60,000 ICE agents. Just the processing alone by ICE standards would stymie any effort more than 2,000 a day. It will require months and months of recruitment and months and months of training to create a large enough ICE force. It will take months and months more of intelligence and investigation gathering to find the evidence to round up the illegal aliens in the interior. It will take years of building detention facilities and years of court actions to legalize new regulations allowing for this deportation force to operate. By then the Democrats will win Congress and the Presidency strangling it in its crib.
There is only one way to get out of this. It requires extra-constitutional measures found by declaring a state of invasion and insurrection. These will short circuit the regulations now in place limiting ICE activities. It will obliterate requirements regarding detention facilities. It will allow the President to appoint thousands of US Marshals and Special Marshals necessary to short circuit hiring and training law enforcement authorities. In turn, they could deputize scores of thousands of already certified law enforcement officers. Finally, that group could embed within the hundreds of thousand of National Guard and Regular troops necessary to enter these illegal alien colonies, round them up rapidly, tear apart their fictitious and fraudulent legal documents, and bypass the Civil Courts and deport them. This is bloody occupation MAN! You don’t resist occupation with law enforcement. Its WAR ENFORCEMENT! WE FIGHT TO WIN!!
Good point about the too-small number of ICE agents, but note that states like Texas and Alabama have ordered local police to arrest the illegals also. There’s still too-much catch and release. One good point is that the border crossings themselves have basically come to a standstill. There are numerous blackrobe-decrees blocking the deportation agenda (along with many other EOs). It might take some time to purge the DOJ of woketards and the like to fight them in courts. What’s really needed for the mid-terms is a congress willing to impeach and remove every one of these blackrobed clowns for high-treason, followed by actual charges and trips to unpleasant places when convicted. Club Gitmo awaits – and folks like Amy Berman need to be there enjoying the tropics for many years to come, unless they get the gallows.