# What do you think about OBBBA? \[One Big Beautiful Bill Act\]

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Tags:** trump\
**Created:** [July 2, 2025, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-obbba-one-big-beautiful-bill-act/1020399 "2025-07-02T13:36:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-obbba-one-big-beautiful-bill-act/1020399/201 "2025-07-08T21:56:00Z")

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I’ve no doubt that the opportunities for corruption will be staggering. I wonder how I can get in on it?

I wonder if there is a market for illegal immigrant dowsing sticks? Guaranteed to detect a non-citizen in a crowd by feel in the hands of a trained user. Training course is extra.

> **[The Bomb Detectors That Didn't Work in Baghdad | FRONTLINE](https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/the-bomb-detectors-that-didnt-work-in-baghdad/)**
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> The ADE 651 bomb detector, which was modeled on a novelty golf ball finder, has been known to be fake for years.

Like this, only for non-citizens.

What other products could we sell to homeland security under these appropriations?

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**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-obbba-one-big-beautiful-bill-act/1020399/202 "2025-07-09T14:07:56Z")

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> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> Wisconsin _just_ pushed through their budget at the last moment to (temporarily) avoid this, as well as other cuts in that bill.

Derrick Van Orden, R-WI, as expected, voted FOR the bill. However, at the 11th hour, he wrote a letter to the Wisconsin Governor urging him to sign the budget, which he did. Now, Derrick Van Orden, that voted FOR the BBB is claiming credit for the budget getting signed.  
He seems to be under the impression that the budged, which the governor had been working on for weeks, was signed because he wrote a letter.

IOW, he voted FOR the BBB while also urging the governor to undermine it, which he was already planning to do, and is trying to take credit for both.

> **[Derrick Van Orden claims credit for Wisconsin's extra Medicaid dollars after...](https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/09/derrick-van-orden-claims-credit-for-wisconsins-extra-medicaid-funds/84510680007/)**
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> Gov. Tony Evers' office is disputing Rep. Derrick Van Orden's claim of credit for Wisconsin's extra Medicaid dollars after voting to cut the program.

This feels _exactly_ like when DeSantis (I think it was him) voted against covid relief funds, but still took credit for them when they got the money anyways.

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