The only easy day was yesterday in the House GOP’s quest to deliver a massive tax cut for the wealthy and a massive Medicaid cut for the poor as, per Politico, on one end the Freedom Caucasians are complaining that the Big Beautiful Bill “fails to actually honor our promise to significantly correct the spending trajectory of the federal government” and they’re extra pissed that they most likely won’t know the CBO score for the bill before they actually vote on it.
On the other end, there’s Mike Lawler bitching to CNN’s Manu Raju about Speaker Mike Johnson not shaking out more SALT deduction space for Blue Staters in a meeting Monday. “This should have been dealt with months ago, as we had asked multiple times… over and over and over, and” the House GOP leadership “chose to wait till the last minute.” Asked by Raju why that was, Lawler only said “You’ll have to ask them. That was a pretty stupid exercise.” Maybe Lawler should resign.