Cutting Down Budget Bill Overreach

Politics

            Pearl River      When Trump and the Republican’s Big Beautiful Budget Bill made it out of the House of Representatives, the topline was clear:  give more to the rich, take more from the poor.  Past that, it was little more than a political jigsaw puzzle that had little or nothing to do with the budget’s …

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Parliamentary Rules and Filibusters

ACORN Politics

            Pearl River         Who would have imagined that lower income families would ever find themselves thankful for parliamentary rules?  Not me, for sure!  Yet, somehow, miracles never cease, and we’re getting a break from the parliamentarian of the US Senate, as she goes through the budget reconciliation pretense that powers Trump and the Republican’s …

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Save the Parks, Too!

United States

            Pearl River      Who wants to wakeup on a Sunday morning and find out that their president lied and ordered bombs to hit three locations in Iran, bringing us, yet again, to the brink of another endless war in the Middle East.  Now Trump says the two week process to give peace and negotiations a …

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