Time for Big Bad Budget stats
Fitz wants to know if you know the evil, despicable, shameful, cruel stats of this fiscally foul son of a bitch
Percentage of us who’ll benefit most from the Big Beautiful Bill’s extension of the 2017 tax cuts for the wealthy: 1%
Number of American billionaires: 735+
Number of American living below the poverty line: 40 million
Annual increase in income for the wealthiest: $12,000
Loss in income for the poorest: -$1,600
Likelihood a poor person is reading this: 0
Number of Arizona nonprofits and organizations losing federal funding due to cuts to the Ameri-Corps program: 14
Dollar amount: $6 million
Public health grants to Arizona terminated: $190 million
Amount medical institutions in Arizona, including the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and Northern Arizona University, will see funding reduced: 15%
Number of employees the Arizona Department of Economic Security is expected to lay off: 500
Cost of tax breaks for the rich according to MAGA-publican Senate, using their Magic Math: $441 billion
True cost of the MAGA-publican tax breaks according to Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, over the decade: $4.2 trillion
$4.2 trillion!
Number of sentient beings who can do math who think a $4.2 trillion national debt is “beautiful”: 0
Number of times in American history a tax cut has ever paid for itself: 0
Times Trump has accurately described a historic American moment: 0
Times he suggested he was a peer of Frederick Douglass: 1
Current annual budget for ICE: $3.4 billion
Cut in funding for National Cancer Institute: 40%
People who will die of cancer in the United States: 618,120
Men who will get Cancer: 1 in 2
Men in Congress: 383
Women: 155
Women who will get Cancer: 40%
Family members I’ve lost to the disease: 2
Proportion of American nursing homes doomed to closure under the Republican Big Bad Bill: 1 out of 4
Amount spent on Federal Prison System: $8.2 billion
Amount to be spent on ICE concentration camps: $45 billion
For new ICE hires: $8 billion
Chances you are thinking “This is some nazi bullshit going down”: 76%
Amount Senate Republicans will gleefully cut from Medicaid: $930 billion
Number of Americans who will become uninsured: 12 million
12 million!
Tossed off Food Stamps: 3 million!
Cost to be a space tourist on Blue Origin: $28 million
Number who will see their Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program slashed: 40 million. 40 million human beings. In the Great Depression my mother said she was kept alive by FDR so this cruelty is as personal as a clutched heart and has a long dead and lovely face, the face of my mother struggling to feed her little boys, my step-brothers, a single mother working as a high end taxi dancer to get by and staving off hunger with some handouts from Uncle Sam, God Bless Him. Trump and your morally putrid oligarchs are the welfare queens sucking off the tit of every worker in this country.
Amount Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez's wedding in Venice cost: $50 million
Number of Americans expected to die due to the budget cuts according to the Yale School of Public Health analysis: 51,000
Number of Senators who said “Well, we’re all going to die” : 1
Percentage of MAGA-publican Senators who didn’t say it-but, thought it: 100 & 10%
Amount in Medicaid funding cut for Lousiana, with Speaker Mike Johnson’s hallelujah we stuck-it-to-ya blessing: $4 billion
Number of health system CEOs in Louisiana who sent letters warning Speaker Mike Johnson their Medicaid cuts “would be historic in their devastation”: 7
Odds Johnson will burn in Evangelical Hell: 12 to 1
Budget for Defense Department to create Golden Dome missile defense system: $25 billion
For border security: $1 billion
Green energy tax breaks for electric vehicles: 0
Production and investment tax credits for companies developing wind, solar and other renewable energy projects: 0
Year China is predicted to be able to produce enough solar and solar storage infrastructure to match the entire electricity generation capacity of the United States: 2030
Money for Trump’s “National Garden of American heroes” sculpture garden: $40 million
Schlock art over-the-top crap “statuary” that will be there: 100 %
“Reich” Trump thinks he’s ushering in: 4th
Hole he always cheats: 9th
Favorite day in January: 6th
Number of Republican Senators who had the balls to oppose Trump’s cruel, stupid and suicidal Budget Bill as if this moment: 2
Number of Democrats who opposed Trump’s cruel, stupid and suicidal Budget Bill: 262
Amount of tax citizens now pay on gun silencers: $200
Once the Bill’s signed: $0
Total population of Americans living in the USA: 348,000,000
Total number of Republicans serving in Congress: 274
Percent of Trump’s uneducated base who oppose the budget bill: 53%
Americans overall: 59%
Independents: 73%
Total number of Republicans serving in Congress who’ll be reelected after they pass this bill for President Trump: 0
Total number of Americans who’ll claim they voted Republican once the impact of this bill hits home: 0
Number of colossal business failures Trump, who claims his budget will revive the economy, has amassed: 11+
Additional Chapter 11 bankruptcies: 6
Felony counts for fraud: 34
I.Q.: 34
Number of Americans who describe themselves as Republicans: 38,000,000
Number who consider themselves Christians according to a 2023 survey: 84%
Number who Christ considers Christians: 0
Members of Congress of both parties whose incomes exceed $1 million: 268
Times I forgot where I put my Margarita today: 268
Number of people in the streets protesting this bill: 10,000,000.
Number of things in it congress will change: 0
Any student of history has seen this act before. We are following the same path as Germany did in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Transpose our leader with theirs and his advisors (particularly Miller) with his, and you’ll see where this is headed. Persecution of the innocent followed by search for the guilty. History and human nature… Nothing new under the sun. When will we learn?