Rand Paul and Dana Loesch not fans of the "Big Beautiful Bill"

The tax cuts and no tax on tips are good, but the "Big Beautiful Bill" is not going nearly far enough in cutting. Dana Loesch noted this morning on her radio show that it is still funding Planned Parenthood and a bunch of Biden's Green Deal. Rand Paul notes that he cannot support a bill that expands government deficits by trillions of dollars each year. That is not sustainable. The debt ceiling cannot be expanded.  

As Rand Paul noted, if Congress gives a "recission" vote (which only requires a simple majority), Trump and DOGE have authority to undercut most of the legal challenges to DOGE.  

I get politics is of the possible. Still, we need to cut, not fund, discretionary spending. Certainly things like Planned Parenthood need to go (even if it just a small portion of this).  We have to get fiscal issues under control.  Update: Big Beautiful Bill passes in House

Daily Caller: ‘Don’t F*ck Around With Medicaid’: Trump Moves To Quash GOP Schisms Over ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’

Twitchy: Brian Schatz Is Mad About 'Big Beautiful Bill' and Its 'Wealth Transfer' (but Check Out His Past Posts!)

Instapundit: PJ Media: Whose side are you on? Pass the Big Beautiful Bill

Breitbart: Some of the GOP "Big Beautiful Bill" Holdouts

Larry Kudlow: The Big Beautiful Bill will pass House

BattleSwarm: Big?  Yes.  Beautiful? Not So Much

RedState: Trump rallying for "Big Beautiful Bill"

Don Surber: Massey: The next Liz Cheney

Fox News: GOP bill needs a "fat shot" 

AoSHQ: Morning Report 05.20.25

After brushing off the media’s false narratives, Trump turned back to the issue that brought everyone together: his signature legislation—what he calls the Big Beautiful Bill.

The media has been floating a storyline that Trump’s plan can’t survive a divided GOP and that he… pic.twitter.com/dl5XKpZAFl

— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) May 20, 2025

Elizabeth Warren: Do You Have A Plan For This? 👨🏻‍🎓👩🏻‍🎓🤷🏻‍♀️💰

A Father confronts @SenWarren

Father : My daughter is in school, I saved all my money just to pay student loans Can I have my money back?

Warren: of course not

Father: so you want to help those who don't save any money and the ones that do the right thing get screwed? pic.twitter.com/EY8M57tj9F

— JiveBunny (@JiveBunnyMuzik) January 21, 2020

The Democrats are shamelessly trying to curry favor with college kids (promising to forgive all their debt). It is a scam. Meanwhile Democrats deny poor kids school choice and decent primary education. Donald Trump supports school choice for poor kids (mostly black and brown)--and they call him racist.

Meanwhile Elizabeth Warren has dropped to fourth--in New Hampshire. Why is she dropping but her challengers are all going up? That is not good news for her. Democrats are catching on that she is a grifter and liar.

Free Beacon: Father confronts Warren over 'Free College'

AoSHQ: Morning Report 01.23.20 and Morning Report 01.24.20

Louder With Crowder: This Father Just Pwned Elizabeth Warren On Her Socialist Economic Policies
Legal Insurrection: Elizabeth Warren: How could the American people want someone who lies to them? and Bring out the women and non-binary people! 

Instapundit: Powerline: PJ Media: Elizabeth Warren's Joe The Plumber Moment, Loan forgiveness not the solution to college debt crisis, student debt soars (why is that), the college loan crisis that isn't, and Elizabeth Warren dangles from a crane promising to be the college debt angel

Who Was Thomas Cook? 🇬🇧

A sad way to go out after 178 years. 

Thomas Cook collapsed and is out of business. Hundreds of thousands of travelers are stranded. But who was Thomas Cook?

Thomas Cook started organizing railway excursions in 1845. He started out as a Baptist Missionary getting people to a temperance meeting by rail--but that turned into the birth of modern tourism. A long legacy--but unfortunately the company took on too much debt in recent years and could not satisfy its creditors. Sad.

Update: Thomas Cook Fat Cats Took Bonuses prior to going under?  Pretty sleazy. Stuff like that can open you up potentially for individual liability if there is fraud shown (at least in the US). I am going to guess it is similar in the UK. 

Hot Air: A Peacetime Dunkirk

AoSHQ: Morning Report 09.23.19

Deadbeat Evan McMuffin has campaign finance problems of his own...

No more "waiting till Tuesday" for payment from Egg McMuffin

Bad Egg McMuffin

If you are going to be sanctimonious priss, at least pay off your debts Evan! 

TOM: Words mean things (so do debts Evan)

Don Surber: Evan McMullin feels the Trump effect

Instapundit: NeverTrumper principles just a big fake act

AoSHQ: Egg McMuffin Stiffs His Staffers and Evan McMullin's "sacred honor" is at stake!

Legal Insurrection: Debt Laden NeverTrumper Evan McMuffin May Have Campaign Finance Issues

EBL: Evan McMullin is a sad pathetic joke, Are we really supposed to take Evan McMullin seriously?, and Evan McMullin has been race baiting the GOP for a while...

Evan "Egg McMuffin" McMullin is a sad pathetic joke...

EBL: Evan McMullin has been race baiting the GOP for a while...

In full disclosure, I got booted from RedState for the temerity of mocking Evan McMullin (this is the post that triggered two losers over there). Now RedState is back defending Evan McMullin again, saying his critics are the ones who have problems.  

Evan McMullin is a fraud. McMullin wracked up hundreds of thousands in campaign debt on his Quoitic quest, which I believe he has not paid it back. But I have to agree with Caleb Howe, McMullin certainly did not cause Ed Gillespie to lose in Virginia last night. Evan McMullin is too pathetic to have such an impact. 

McMullin calling Ed Gillespie a racist?  Yeah, people called BS on that. McMullin of course has no shame. McMullin is a deadbeat and a joke. He is less credible than David Frum.  

Now I know Donald Trump has flaws. I get that. Trump Administration he has promoting changes that are conservative and are making a very positive difference. Trump for all his flaws is making real progress. Trump would be doing a lot more if GOP Congress was working with him. 

Evan McMullin is not about fixing anything, just about sniping at Trump or anyone associated with Trump.  Maybe Evan should switch parties and be a Democrat? 

Man pulls gun at McDonald because there were no egg mcmuffins🔫🍳Who could it be? 🤔https://t.co/lIvFK7mGPF pic.twitter.com/WJSxPodQAx

— Evi L. Bloggerlady (@MsEBL) November 4, 2017

AoSHQ: Hillary Will Never Be President Of The United States and Flashback: Trump Defeats Democrats and GOPe

Instapundit: The Democrats are learning the lesson of 2016, are Republicans learning from 2017?

TOM: Charlie Sheen accused of raping Corey Haim and Teaching Kids to be Queer

Powerline: Flashback to Trump Victory Night

This Aint Hell: The real lesson of Virginia

John Nolte: Best Media Meltdowns

Evan McMullin: Before you run for office again, maybe you should pay off your debts...

Twitchy:  Although the way he is wracking up debt, perhaps Evan McMullin is ready for higher office!

Twitchy Comments: Separated at Birth? 

Instapundit: So who, Evan, is the con man?

So with all this news of Greece and now Puerto Rico going into default, how about some Rita Moreno!

This scene from West Site Story never gets old and Rita Moreno still looks great!

Instapundit: Virginia Postrel/Puerto Rico Default, Ed Driscoll, Elizabeth Price Foley and Greece and EU Democratic Deficit, and Michael Totten/Everybody settle down!

EBL: Look on the bright side, the exchange rate in Greece should be fabulous!

TOM: Greece Shuts Down Banks and Greece Runs Out of Other People's Money
Instapundit/Ed Driscoll: George Will: Default is a valuable lesson on how socialism works and basic economics and Puerto Rico goes broke
Mark Steyn: Big Fat Greeks, and Weddings
Instapundit: Why is Puerto Rico such a mess? (hint, might have something to do with politics and economic policies)

Rule 5 and FMJRA

The Clintons Struggled post presidency to make ends meet…

RT: @PolitiBunny #HillaryIsSoPoor she has to make her pantsuits out of the curtains. OR WORSE pic.twitter.com/yb7cbeXw7A
— EJ Hill (@RicochetEJHill) June 10, 2014

Lem's Place has more. 

Update:
Hillary Clinton backpedals on "Dead Broke" comment she made.

Should Republicans make a modest proposal about outstanding student debt and college aid?

Here is Daniel Oliver at The Federalist's proposal:

(1) canceling all student loans owed to the federal government and paying off all loans owed to private institutions and (2) eliminating all federal aid, grants, support, etc. to postsecondary educational institutions.  It’s a package deal: no elimination of aid, no cancellation of debts.

Read the whole thing.  

If you like wedge issues, is a very interesting proposal.  I could see Glenn Reynolds liking it.  

The Debt Limit

h/t: Small Dead Animals

Update:
TOM: Sooner or later...

Separated at Birth: Shylock seeking his pound of flesh and...?

Shylock from the Merchant of Venice...

Larry the Grifter

Actually this is unfair to Shylock.

This graft came from the White House and is pretty damning evidence that the Obama Administration ballooned the National Debt

Thanks to Mario Loyola at the Corner for finding this gem...

Source of this graph:  The White House

President Obama is responsible for the five trillion dollars of debt he has incurred for the USA over the past four years.  

As goes Wisconsin, so goes the nation...

Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you, woo woo woo...

In the end, math matters and as a general rule, the sooner you make your peace with arithmetic, the less it’s going to hurt. Moderate and mild reforms work pretty well if the reform process starts early enough; wait long enough, though, and the steps needed to get the finances straight become savage and painful. Ask the Greeks. Or ask the citizens — and the municipal employees — of California’s bankrupt cities.

h/t:  Instapundit 

China owes us a trillion dollars?

Some of it is World War II debt...*

*  More about the Flying Tigers

The Titanic: One hundred years ago today that doomed ship was already underway on its maiden voyage...and we still fail to learn the lesson of hubris

Think of this as the U.S. Economy...

Mark Steyn and the Weekly Standard have some sobering ice berg warnings.  

This is going to end badly.  Barack Obama is tearing apart a plan that is not radical solution but a minimal solution (think of it as the Carpathia).   We are about to get a collective Darwin Award.

But the Captain does not care.

Prior EBL post:
Thanks Mark Steyn for ruining my weekend...

National Debt under Barack Obama

The Other McCain advises we break out the water wings...
Update:
Great first quarter for stocks?  Not so fast...

Mark Steyn ruining my weekend...again! The United States' debt levels are worse than Greece

Steyn and Rogan:  Separated at Birth? 

Beyond his resemblance with Seth Rogan above, there is nothing funny at all with what Mark Steyn is saying in this article.  Thanks for ruining another weekend for me Mark. You have a very rude habit of speaking the truth.  
Here's Mark saying the same thing at NRO.

Prior EBL posts:
Thanks Mark Steyn for ruining my weekend...
It is all Greek to me...and you too!
Is the perfect economic storm brewing?
USA number one...in per capita debt!

h/t:  West Coast Outpost for the Separated at Birth picture and Vodkapundit for the article.

USA Number One! USA Number One! Oh wait...USA is number one in per capita debt?

This is not a good thing to be number one in...  The Debt Star is not just coming, it is here.  The Paul Ryan Republican budget plan is not radical, it is the minimum solution.  The cuts needed are far more draconian than what Ryan is recommending.
h/t:  Protein Wisdom

It is this sort of thinking that got us in this mess...

The economics of the death star.  

I do not want to be too critical of this thought experiment,  

and beyond the economics are also the physics of it,  and people have thought about how it works,

but if you do not pay attention to the details you end up with this mess:

Prior EBL Posts:

• It is all Greek to me (or our Big Fat Greek Economy)
• Working Hard? Suckas
• Mark Steyn:  Thanks for ruining my weekend...
• Why we are so screwed:  The U.S. Economy and Medical entitlements...
• Hope?