# What do you think about OBBBA? \[One Big Beautiful Bill Act\] **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 39
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-obbba-one-big-beautiful-bill-act/1020399/39 "2025-07-02T16:48:05Z")
Most of the focus is on Medicaid cuts and other social programs, but they are also gutting critical research science, education, and climate/meteorological modeling and assessment: > [@Heh. I called it. I knew that conservatives would try to prosecute climate change activists](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heh-i-called-it-i-knew-that-conservatives-would-try-to-prosecute-climate-change-activists/1015517/52): > > Well, they are doing it. Most of NOAA is getting cut including anything to do with climate surveillance, storm weather prediction and modeling, and any kind of public outreach. The [Fifth National Climate Assessment Report](https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/) has already been taken offline in violation of federal law (backups are available on other sites but no future assessments will be forthcoming) and thousands of climate and meteorological modeling experts are soon to be unemployed, with many projects which are in process and … So much for being the global leader in science or making even mouth-noises about abating or adapting to the impacts of climate heating. > [@DeadTreasSecretaries](#): > > Since I’m just a random person who is too obsessed with politics, I’ll defer to someone who is qualified on this: Lisa Murkowski. > > See her tweet below where she explains that this is a horrible bill, but she cast the deciding vote for it because she got a payoff for her state of less than a million people in exchange for likely kicking 15 million Americans off of medicaid. It’s not even going to be a net benefit for Alaska. This is purely about her getting short term gains to benefit her 2028 reelection campaign and not getting slammed by the AK Republican Party for not supporting Trump. She’s putting her own career over duty to country and even the long term benefit of her constituents. > [@LouMa](#): > > might dawn on the American people that if they don’t fight fascism early enough, it might be too late. Once they are in the complete grip of fascist tentacles, there is no way out. This has been happening for the last eight years and yet the corporate media is still reluctant to let the ‘F-word’ pass their lips for fear of sounding hyperbolic even when Trump openly declares that he’s going to be a dictator and muses about a third term with GOP operatives musing about Constitutional loopholes which could legally justifying it. Historians and scholars of autocracy and fascism are leaving the country because of the clear historical parallels they are witnesses. This is happening in real time, and virtually nobody in a position of authority is doing anything to effectively halt it, certainly not the oligarch class who are jockeying with each other to supplicate Trump and fête with ‘gifts’ in the form of contributing to his inaugural festivities and buying millions of dollars of ‘TRUMP Coin’ and other dubious crypto ‘investments’ in what is the most naked display of corruption in the history of the country. > [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > The bill seems badly designed and is going to hurt Republican reelection chances. This assumes that Republicans are concerned about playing on a fair field for future elections instead of ramping up voter suppression, gerrymandering the fuck out of districts in states they control, and just denying the validity of any election where they lose. > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > There are fundamentally zero Democrats in Congress who are “going along with Trump.” But there are plenty who aren’t resisting all that much, and from the top down. Adam Schiff can make his cute ‘walk & talk’ videos critiquing the Trump administration but he’s still accepting big bags of money by the same cryptobros who are also boosting Trump in hope of getting government backing for their fake money scams. Chuck Schumer is still waiting for Trump’s approval rating to drop below some magical threshold. John Fetterman is a MAGA Republican in all but name. For the few senators and representatives who are actively and energetically speaking out (and sometimes getting removed, detained, and handcuffed) for asking questions, most are just keeping their heads down and hoping to keep networking for post-government consluting opportunities and use ‘insider information’ to make canny investments. Yes, I do mean Nancy Pelosi, Ro Khanna, and John Hickenlooper, among others. Stranger --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-obbba-one-big-beautiful-bill-act/1020399)._