https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/public-land-highest-bidder-trump-big-beautiful-bill-1235369151/

“Section 174 was permanent, until the Tax act of 2017 pushed by the current President made them expire in 2022, under a different President. That was when the market tanked and the Layoffs began. The current bill debated in congress that has the renewal of 174 also removes judicial protection against abuse of power. Enabling government employees to do as they please without having to comply with Judicial oversight. That would give dictatorial powers to the President. 174 needs to be restore without destroying this democracy. Keep that in mind when advocating to Senators.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44273790#:~:text=Section%20174%20was,advocating%20to%20Senators.

«“This is an attempt [BY REPUBLICANS] to strangle people with red tape,” Medicare Rights Center president Frederic Riccardi told me.»

https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/yes-they-are-going-after-medicare-too-republicans-big-beautiful-bill-health-care-vulnerable?r=2tv2o (paywalled, sorry)

(This is over and above the plain old cuts they’re going to make to Medicare, if the big bill* passes.)

Republicans bitch about gov’t inefficiency. Biden fixes something. More efficiency ==> more people get the help they deserve ==> more gov’t money flows out the door.

Republicans say, “oh, not like that.”

So, literally: Republicans are trying to kill people with red tape. People will not get the help they need (and deserve, by law). Quality of life will decline, and by an estimate from Harvard and U. Penn., 18,000 will die unnecessarily per year.

\*I think we should start calling it the One Big Ugly Bill. The OBUB.