Donald Trump knew from the very beginning that the spending budget he would send to congress was a big fraud. That is why he had to describe it as "one big beautiful bill." That is also why the republicans had to describe it that way because they too knew it was a fraud. And to top it off, the media, who has the responsibility to inform, instead, used the "one big beautiful bill" description and continued their enabling of Trump every time they wrote about or broadcasted information on the spending bill. That was not enough though, the New Orleans Times Picayune in two articles about the passage of the bill used the same description, "one big beautiful bill" in a front page story of July 4 and 5.
It did not matter to Trump and his party that many of their members in congress who would vote on the legislation did not like the bill, did not read it, would increase deficit spending and the national debt and cut needed services while giving tax breaks mainly to the wealthy and corporations, all paid for by deficit spending. The GOP even bribed their own U.S. Senator, Lisa Murkowski who represents Alaska, by exempting Alaska from parts of the bill. Her bribed vote was critical for the GOP to pass the legislation. Then you have the Times Picayune articles that compliments Louisiana's representations in congress who were able to have the cuts that the bill makes be due over a certain period of time for Louisiana. Never mind that a cut is still a cut and who knows what the bottom line will be over a period of time.
The UGLY spending bill was a fraud from the very beginning from a President and a party that knows a lot about fraud. The Congressional Budget Office told congress and the world just how bad the bill would be for America and its people and the fact that 17 million Americans would lose their health care coverage and more. The tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations are unnecessary. President Regan did it, Clinton did not and the economy did much better on Clinton's watch and Clinton raised taxes on those same folks. President Bush43 did it again. President Obama did not and the economy did better on Obama's watch. President Trump did it in his first term. President Biden did not and the economy did better on Biden's watch than it did on Trump's watch.
All three of those GOP Presidents gave the country an economic recession, Clinton, Obama and Biden did not. Clinton balanced the budget, Reagan, Bush and Trump did not. Obama and Biden left office with a smaller deficit than when they took office Reagan, Bush and Trump did not. The Savings and Loan failure took place on Reagan's watch, The great recession of 2008 took place on Bush's watch and the COVID pandemic was handled poorly on Trump's watch.
The news media has failed to inform the America people how reckless GOP administrations have been on the economy, taxes and fiscal policy. And they failed to inform the America people how morally reckless they were and are on their UGLY bill passed and signed by the king of Fraud, President Donald Trump. Never before has the media accepted a new norm for corruption.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
