Happy Independence Day!!!
Happy 249th birthday America!!!
Well, the big bill passed...
Congress has officially passed President Donald Trump’s "one big, beautiful bill" on Thursday afternoon after back-to-back sleepless sessions for both the House and Senate.
The massive agenda bill now goes to Trump’s desk to be signed into law just in time for Republicans’ self-imposed Fourth of July deadline.
The bill – which advances Trump’s policies on tax, the border, defense, energy and the national debt – narrowly passed the House of Representatives in a mostly party-line vote. All but two Republicans, Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., voted for the bill, which passed 218 – 214.
Full article, HERE from Fox News.
But we still got screwed...
What we ‘didn’t’ get that was promised, was SBR/Bs and suppressors were NOT removed from the NFA. Granted, the ‘tax’ has been reduced from $200 to 0, but we still have to jump through the ‘mother may I’ hoops… And the promise of no tax on Social Security got chopped too… Supposedly, we’ll get a ‘tax break’ of up to $6000 for 3 years… Whoop de do…
Now it's time for all those 2A groups and NRA to step up and get what we were promised if they want our support in 2026!
And all of us old farts should be writing letters, calling, and calling out our congresscritters at those townhalls!
Both of these 'should' have been easy... Sigh...
I'm surprised we got anything at all, since even "conservative" politicians seem to lose their minds when they get to DC. All the 3-letter stuff needs to go (NFA, CIA, FBI...), but I guess that's wishful thinking.
When the Senate Parliamentarian declared Short Barrel R & S not a tax issue, she declared the NFA unconstitutional, as the bill was justified as a tax to make it meet constitutional requirements. What is it? How come no one in the Senate argued that? They reduce the "tax" to $0, but we still have the paperwork and the feds can still track who owns what. Congress is spineless, both sides of the aisle. Democrats will lie for no reason and Republicans will argue over nothing and accomplish little. The OBBB is great, but even a broken clock is right twice a day...