When examining the GOP's homicidal class war budget reconciliation bill, I think it's crucial to also look at why this horrible Frankenstein's monster that now exceeds a thousand pages, is being stitched together in secret and released under the cover of darkness. The fact is Republican strategists know that voting to rob and murder labor class Americans to empower and enrich billionaire broligarch nazis, while legally enshrining a fascist administrative order over US life to defend these changes, is not going to be popular with the American people once they figure out what this bullshit mega-bill actually does. Furthermore, given that there's absolutely nothing subtle about the ways the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" transforms our society at a pen stroke, it is impossible for GOP politicians to lie and deflect their way through discussions about the bill; so they'd simply prefer you didn't know about all the awful shit inside it.

Fortunately however there are a lot of groups forensically dissecting the GOP's budget reconciliation bill, which may well be the worst piece of legislation I've ever seen the US House actually pass. Take for example recent analysis by Public Citizen showing that by forgoing the proposed increases to US military spending and ballooning funding for the Trump regime's objectively illegal and unconstitutional mass deportation program, the government could keep literally millions of labor class Americans (already being ground up by capitalism) from losing healthcare and food assistance through Medicaid and SNAP.

https://truthout.org/articles/gop-bills-militarized-funding-boost-could-instead-keep-millions-on-medicaid/

GOP Bill’s Militarized Funding Boost Could Instead Keep Millions on Medicaid

"According to a report released Thursday by Public Citizen, the reconciliation bill proposes a boost of over $163 billion to militarized spending, including funds for the Pentagon and for the Department of Homeland Security’s mass deportation campaign. This would bring the Pentagon’s yearly budget to over $1 trillion and triple the budget for mass immigration detention, the report says.

Further, this funding boost alone could more than fund Medicaid for nearly 14 million people at risk of losing their health care coverage under the reconciliation bill, as well as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps, for 11 million who may lose food assistance under the bill.

Shifting funding away from these lifesaving programs and instead allocating it to militarization is effectively “trading life for death,” the report says.

“This reconciliation package is a direct redistribution of resources from struggling Americans to the Pentagon and militarization,” said Lindsay Koshgarian, report co-author and Program Director at the National Priorities Project, in a statement. “Protecting families from losing health care and going hungry is as simple as rejecting new spending on dangerous and unnecessary weapons and indiscriminate mass deportations.”

The purpose of producing reports like this one is to demonstrate that the Regime is actively choosing to prioritize militarization, violence, and white supremacy over the healthcare and food security of labor class Americans; if somehow massive tax cuts that benefit only the top 10% of Americans, and primarily enrich the literal top 1% of earners in the country, while stacking almost another four trillion (with a t) dollars onto the debt, didn't make the point abundantly clear - this should. Naturally, this kind of analysis is rarely going to be featured in corporate media which largely supports a trillion dollar pentagon budget, and funding for militarized policing (of a particular flavor), so it behooves Americans who're aware of this objectively fascist bullshit to share this information widely; hence, this post.

If we step back to examine the broader picture here however, it's difficult to ignore the message this entire bill sends about what these nazi sociopaths want for our collective future. This is a bill that signs the death certificate for thousands, if not millions of labor class Americans, in order to enrich and empower a ruling class that bought itself a fascist government to prosecute the final stages of a real-as-fuck Pig Empire class war; while actively funding and drastically increasing the Trump regime's ability to prosecute that homicidal agenda by force, both within and beyond American borders. As the planet turns to ash, our civil rights are eroded across the entire Pig Empire, and fascist movements identify an ever-expanding circle of "others" who must be targeted for elimination, passing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is an open signal by the ruling fascist party in America that they are preparing to wage, and win, that war immediately; and if the dystopian future they clearly envision for us is any indication, these nazis are playing for keeps.

Well, we're in the shit now. In the event you haven't heard, House Republicans rammed through their nightmare class war reconciliation bill in the dead of night, because when you're voting to murder and rob your own voters, it's best to wait until everyone is asleep. This is of course, bad. The "Big Beautiful Bill" does however still have to make it past the Senate, where there has been pushback over Mike Johnson's proposed $715B in Medicaid cuts; most notably from faux-populist Josh Hawley. Of course, in the US system of government the Senate has the power to alter the bill before voting; which means things could easily get worse too. The long and short of the situation is that we're probably still fucked, but we get to spend multiple weeks agonizing over whether or not we're completely fucked; because American politics is basically the meatspace answer to the Torment Nexus.

All of which means that we're still breaking down the most horrifying aspects of the GOP's homicidal class war reconciliation bill; which honestly might have so much nightmare shit inside that it'll fully pass into law before analysts get a chance to talk about all of the reasons this is a terrible bill. Take for example the unhinged and highly-partisan assault the Republican Party is conducting on green energy initiatives and subsidies. We already know the Trump regime is committed to burning the planet to ash as fast as possible purely as a matter of ideology, but did you know that eliminating everything about Biden's 2022 Inflation Reduction Act will also increase household costs for everyday Americans and eliminate as many as 830,000 jobs? These guys sure are good at "the economy."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/22/trump-republican-tax-bill

Trump’s tax bill to cost 830,000 jobs and drive up bills and pollution emissions, experts warn

The analysis in this article is kind of all over the place, but we're essentially looking at three issues here: job losses, increased household expenses, and climate damage that will be directly caused by this bill.

"And the legislation will cost the US 830,000 jobs by 2030 compared with the status quo, Energy Innovation found. That includes the direct loss of jobs in fields such as solar panel manufacturing and electric vehicle production, indirect job loss from the decreased investments and lower clean energy demand, and induced cuts resulting from consumer spending cuts attributable to layoffs, higher fuel costs, and other third-order effects.

“The Inflation Reduction Act was carefully crafted to create good-paying jobs in deindustrialized communities, underserved communities, and coal communities. We have seen that it is doing just that, creating good jobs you don’t need a college degree to get and opening up pathways to the middle class across the nation,” said Ted Fertik, vice-president of manufacturing and industrial policy at climate and labor advocacy group Blue Green Alliance. “Killing the tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act is a direct attack on working Americans.”

I think these devastating numbers speak for themselves, but it's also worth pointing out that because the IRA's green energy spending was specifically targeted at rural, deindustrialized communities, this is going to result in significantly more job losses in Republican voting areas than "blue" states. Whether that matters to you is a question of opinion, but it again exposes that the GOP is actively voting to harm its own supporters at every turn in this bill.

"The bill as it stands will cause Americans’ energy bills to spike by stymying new renewable energy – often the cheapest form of new electricity generation – the non-partisan thinktank Energy Innovation calculated. The average household will see their bills rise by more than $230 by 2035."

I mean who doesn't love paying higher power bills, am I right? Obviously nobody is going to lose their minds over an additional $230 per year in energy costs, but this must be understood in the context of all the *other* ways this bill is going to increase household costs for American families; more expensive power, combines with higher medical costs, and reduced food subsidies to add up to an insurmountable barrier for low income families pretty fast.

“This will all come at the expense of the environment,” said Orvis.

The new bill will also cause the US to emit 260m tonnes more pollution than it would’ve otherwise in 2035, which is more than the entire annual emissions of Spain."

And of course it wouldn't be a Trump-approved bill if it didn't literally kill the planet faster.

Naturally, all this nightmare bullshit is being sold as "ending subsidies for woke corporations" because not getting black lung is apparently woke now. The obvious truth here however is that this ENTIRE bill is a subsidy for rich people, paid for by literally robbing and murdering labor class Americans.

Look, I don't want to make excuses for the mainstream media here; when a fascist government is actively trying to murder thousands of its own constituents for a small cadre of uber-rich nazi megadonors, that's a story you have to report in honest language no matter what time of day the mass murder plot is revealed to the world. But by that same measure, the fact that the Republican Party is purposely scheduling committee meetings at one on the morning to avoid public scrutiny and protest, while they plot to kill poor and marginalized people to pay for outrageous tax cuts for the rich, is absolutely a part of that story too. It's almost like they *know* murdering poor people and seniors isn't going to be popular even with their own constituents.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/house-rules-committee-hearing

'What Don't They Want You to Know?' GOP Sets 1 AM Hearing to Advance Disastrous Medicaid Cuts

"While the House Rules Committee has not responded to reporters' questions about the timing of Wednesday's hearing, critics said it appears to be an attempt to avoid the kinds of protests and public scrutiny that daytime meetings have attracted.

Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), the ranking member of the rules panel, blasted his Republican colleagues over the dead-of-night hearing time, writing on social media that "they have such contempt for the American people."

"If Donald Trump's big beautiful tax break for billionaires is so great... why not pass it in primetime?" McGovern asked. "Why jam it through in the middle of the night? What don't they want you to know?"

Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) added that "if you think you are doing what is right for the American people, you don't consider it in the dead of night."

Look, I'm not out here to help the Democratic Party improve its image, but it's hard to disagree with anything McGovern and Dingell said here; particularly as the so-called "Big Beautiful Bill" keeps getting worse, and more lethal for labor class Americans all the time. These fascist Republican assclowns know that they're voting to kill their own constituents to pay for outrageous tax cuts and gifts to their billionaire donors, they know that if the people actually understood this folks all over the country would be breaking out the torches and pitchforks; the plan here is clearly to rush this monstrous class war budget through the system under the cover of darkness and then pretend they had no idea how the story would end once people start dying.

Which is why I'd like to highlight Jim McGovern's public statements during that most recent 1 AM hearing; particularly given that I'm not sure how much of the media was even awake for it.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jim-mcgovern-scorches-cynical-gop-move-hate-washington_n_682da4ade4b0c95f733600f1

House Dem Scorches ‘Unbelievably Cynical’ GOP Move As ‘Why People Hate Washington’

“This is a farce, an outrageous insult to the people of this country, to bring up a 1,000-page bill at 1 o’clock in the morning,” McGovern said in the hearing. “A bill that’s still being written, by the way, by Republicans, as we speak, in a backroom somewhere, for God’s sake.”

The bill is central to Trump’s domestic agenda: It would extend tax cuts he signed into law in 2017 that are set to expire at the end of this year, and pump hundreds of billions of dollars into his mass deportation campaign and newly announced “Golden Dome” missile defense system.

The legislation would offset those tax cuts and expenditures by pushing millions of Americans off Medicaid, however, and by curbing eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which helps about 42 million people buy food each month.

“And then to try to jam it through Congress in the middle of the night when nobody is watching is just unbelievably cynical,” McGovern, the ranking Democrat on the House Rules Committee, said Wednesday. “This is why people hate Washington.”

Plainly speaking, McGovern is absolutely right; which is why it's pretty disturbing that his remarks aren't all over the front pages of every media outlet in America. Furthermore, McGovern's analysis of what the bill actually does is a fair site better than anything you'll hear on CNN or MSNBC as well.

"McGovern on Wednesday called the legislation “a scam” to punish working and middle-class Americans, asking Republican supporters during the hearing why they chose a career in public service “just to rip away” their constituents’ “health care and food assistance and security.”

“And let me say this to every Republican member who votes for this,” McGovern added.

“You own it,” he continued. “You own it. You own every hospital that closes, every child that goes to bed hungry, every senior who loses care, and every American family forced to choose between groceries and rent, between their heating bill and their child care.”

Of course, even McGovern didn't use the word "murder" but I guess it doesn't count till healthcare CEOs are dying.