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Musk aiming to send uncrewed Starship to Mars by end of 2026 - Reuters Right after Musk honors his promise to save the federal government $2 trillion!

www.jns.org/trump-sends-... 🤷‍♂️ Why are the taxpayers footing the bill to send the Homeland Security Secretary 6000 miles away from the homeland. We have an Ambassador in Israel and a Secretary of State.

www.carolinajournal.com/fema-again-d... Trump to N.C. Disaster Victims: “You’re on your own! I’ve got a $90 million birthday parade to plan.”

apnews.com/article/trum...

www.politico.com/live-updates... Cowards! These 2 guys deliberately sat out this vote. (The Floor and Leadership staff move Heaven and Earth to track down Members who haven’t voted. They would have kept the vote open for as long as it took.)

www.cnbc.com/2025/05/22/r... That wasn’t so hard, was it? All it took to get GOP Members to overcome their fiscal principles was to throw more money at rich homeowners, while taking away poor people’s health care faster.

“you should have a choice” means “we get to choose for you”

Friday afternoon: Moody’s downgrades U.S. credit rating, citing rapidly rising debt. Sunday (after 10 PM): Every GOP Member of the House Budget Committee says, “Hold my beer!”

www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-tak... Insightful article. “If saving money is the goal, Republicans could switch their focus over to the Medicare Advantage program, in which even conservatives see hundreds of billions of dollars of what is essentially corporate welfare just waiting to be trimmed.”

The hallmark of Trump’s on-again-off-again tariffs is uncertainty. Consumers don’t know what to do. Should I buy a new car now with the existing tariffs? Or might the tariffs go away a month from now? Or go higher still?

We can’t keep running $2 trillion deficits every year. The Republican tax cut bill will just make things worse.

www.nj.com/politics/202...

Me on hour 14 of dragging Republican Medicaid cuts for filth and giving them no end in sight

Just got word that Secretary Noem is asking for an addition to her budget - a new private Gulfstream 5 jet for her personal national photo op tour. She's already got a private plane but wants a tricked out new one. All while she supports kicking 13 million people off Medicaid.

Not even close, Ann.