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OMB Director Russ Vaught Breaks Down Major Value of Big Beautiful Bill and Likelihood of Passage
Video at the link.
[ConservativeTreehouse] Another facet not discussed in the BBB background is data released by the US Office of Personnel Management showing a reduction of approximately 23,000 federal employees since the Trump administration took office. [LINK HERE] OPM adds that hundreds of thousands will drop from payroll in October 2025. [link]

Office of Management and Budget Director Russel Vought appears on CNBC to discuss the non-pretending facts within the Big Beautiful Bill as it passed through the Senate. The House now needs to reconcile, support the bill and send it to President Trump’s desk by July 4th.

The key notation from Vought comes at 06:07 of the video below as he explains the BBB is just one facet of a larger cost-cutting initiative (tariff revenue, recission cuts, discretionary spending reductions etc.). WATCH:

Senate passes Trump’s sweeping ‘big beautiful’ agenda bill, sending it to the House for high-stakes showdown
As I understand it, should the thing get through the next round and to President Trump’s desk for his signature, his maximum spending will be defined. However, he need not spend all the funds Congress allocates, so he can act on the post-Elon Musk DOGE team’s additional discoveries to come. And he can get on with refurbishing the military, which is desperately needed.
[NYPost] Senate Republicans narrowly passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Tuesday, sending it to the House for final approval following a 27-hour blitz of amendments.

The 51-50 vote — with Vice President JD Vance breaking the deadlock — puts Republicans on track to have the bill on President Trump’s desk by the self-imposed Fourth of July deadline, if enough House politicians stay on board.

Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Thom Tillis of North Carolina joined all 47 Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
 in voting "nay."

The megabill, which clocks in at nearly 900 pages in length, extends most of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts; reduces taxes on tips and overtime pay; and increases spending on defense, border security, and energy exploration while slashing entitlement outlays.

The legislative bundle had inched through Congress, overcoming criticism from all parts of the Republican Party.

After more than a month of deliberation, the Senate modified the House version of the legislation to extend business tax reductions, deepen cuts to Medicaid, increase the debt limit by $5 trillion, and eliminate a moratorium on state restrictions against artificial intelligence.

Sen. Lisa Daddy, can I be a senator? Murkowski
... representing K Street ...
 (R-Alaska) emerged as the key swing vote, with GOP leadership leaning on her aggressively — and even trying to exempt The Last Frontier from some spending cuts to woo her, but those amendments were blocked by Democrats.

"I had to look on balance," Murkowski told news hounds. "We do not have a perfect bill by any stretch of the imagination."

"My hope is that the House is going to look at this and recognize that we’re not there yet."

Before the vote, fiscal hawks like Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) grumbled over the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s impact on the deficit, even threatening to derail its passage.

Eventually, leadership agreed to deepen cuts to Medicaid from the version that passed the lower chamber last month, assuaging Johnson’s concerns.

"I’m convinced they’re committed to returning to reasonable pre-pandemic spending, and I’ll be highly involved in a process to achieve and maintain it," Johnson told "Fox & Friends" Monday morning.

Leadership was also forced to grapple with moderate Republicans who were uneasy over reforms to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, aka food stamps).

"We can’t be cutting health care for working people and for poor people in order to constantly give special tax treatment to corporations and other entities," Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) told NBC News last week.

But ultimately, Hawley backed the bill, and GOP leadership was able to keep enough moderates on board.

Another dilemma had been a 10-year moratorium against state regulation of artificial intelligence, which had been nestled in the House version.

That had seemingly been a dealbreaker for Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and drew opposition from House Republicans such as far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who discovered that provision after it passed the lower chamber.
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