If you're horrified by Trump's attempts to use the American military to enforce brutal

immigrant round ups in Los Angeles, demand that your representatives in Congress stop the

"Big Beautiful Budget Bill." That's because the bill "gives the government the resources to do

this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your

town if the bill passes," according to David Dayen of The American Prospect. Here's a quick

summary of the damage the Republican budget would wreak on the American way of life:

1. Massive spending cuts to support networks would, according to the Congressional Budget

Office, reduce the federal Medicaid budget by at least $600 billion over a decade, with

some 11 million people losing their health coverage, according to the Congressional Budget

Office. Another $300 billion cut to SNAP ("food stamps") would slash nutrition assistance.

Less eye-catching but equally detrimental are cuts that would virtually eliminate support for

a clean environment, medical research, and regulatory restraints on business corporations.

2. Resources from these cuts would fund huge increases for mass deportation of immigrants

and the military.

3. Tax cuts for billionaires and millionaires will result in both a massive upward transfer of

wealth and a huge loss in tax revenue. One consequence: triggering legally required "Pay-

as-You-Go" cuts to Medicare of $45 billion for each year of the bill. The revenue deficit

created by the tax cuts will force the federal government to borrow trillions of additional

dollars, incurring hundreds of billions in added interest payments, added to the deficit.

4. Finally, there's what the NYT calls "Hidden attacks on democracy," of which there are

many. One example, "expansion of national policing authority [that] would make everyone

in the United States more vulnerable to government overreach. For the two-thirds of

Americans who live in the 100-mile border enforcement zone, including entire states like

Florida and Maine, it would mean living under constant threat of warrantless searches,

surveillance and racial profiling."

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