🚨 We have a FULL SCORE of the House Reconciliation Bill🚨 As written, it will: ⚫ Add $3.3 trillion to the debt through 2034 ⚫ Cost $600 billion in 2027, alone ⚫ Boost 2034 debt to 125 percent of GDP But arbitrary expirations obscure the cost. If permanent ... 1/5🧵

If made permanent, the House bill would: ⚫ Add $5.2 trillion to the debt ⚫ Boost 2034 deficits to $3.3 trillion ⚫ Push annual interest costs to $2 trillion ⚫ Increase debt to nearly 130 percent of GDP This is despite $2.5 trillion in offsets...2/5

Most of the new costs come from the Ways & Means Committee -- which proposes about $4.8 trillion of tax cuts and $1 trillion of offsets. The bill spends another $300 billion on defense and border security. It saves $900 billion from Energy & Commerce and another $700 billion

The House reconciliation bill threatens to explode deficits and interest costs. Deficits will grow past $3 trillion a year. Interest costs will more than double to $2 trillion. In 2019, deficits were $1 trillion and interest $300 billion! 4/5

I addressed the European Political Community Summit. This week, we had a real chance to move toward ending the war — if only Putin hadn’t been afraid to come to Türkiye. I was there ready for a direct meeting with him to resolve all key issues. He didn’t agree to anything.

What’s the excuse now for not covering the story of the President’s mental health?

3/ • “We should kill them out of love.” • “Drown Ukrainian children, drown them.” • “We need to destroy every living thing in the Kharkiv region.” • “We need to level the cities of Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa.”

UNITED24 Media Human Rights Foundation (HRF) Thor Halvorssen Olga Rudenko When ruZZia stops murdering sleeping children in their beds, and calling them legitimate military targets, I'll stop demonizing Orc's... But I won't. They put out all this hate and death in the world... and now it is catching up to them.

If I read another ridiculous piece about Biden’s age when we are on the brink of a catastrophic constitutional crisis with an illegitimate President and authoritarian regime that wants to do away with the 14th amendment and all its protections, I will die.

Moody's didn't just pick a random Friday, May 16 to downgrade the US debt. Moody's was sending a warning to Republicans in Congress. The House GOP tax cut bill would add $3 trillion more to the debt. That's huge. And it will likely increase borrowing costs for the US gov't --

I was paying attention. I was listening. I believed you. I did what you told me to do and I became who you told me to become—and so now I care about the world and I despise evil and I live open-hearted and open-handed. And that's why I've found myself standing here wondering how

Russia uses drones to hunt civilians—a brutal war on humanity. Every delay costs lives. Ceasefire must be total. Justice must follow, with Russia held fully accountable.

Trump is failing in Congress right now and losing case after case in front of the Supreme Court. Trump knows his autocratic agenda is failing which is why he is flooding the zone with insane and stupid ideas and posts to distract you from his real world defeats.

In May 1944, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered the mass deportation of 238,500 Crimean Tatars. Forced into cattle cars, they were transported 4,000 kilometers to Central Asia. The Tatars called them “crematoria on wheels.” Along the way, 30,000 died of suffocation, hunger,

Russia's war is now purely aimed at the massacre of Ukraine's civilian population. New and more powerful weapons are targeting apartment buildings and family homes while Ukraine's allies make promises they have no intention of keeping.

How many Ukrainian lives must be lost before the world stops lying to itself and chooses to stand with truth and decency? 💔 Kyiv, now.

Morning from Kyiv, where the drone attack has lasted from midnight (almost 9 hours already) russia launched 273 drones at Ukraine. I will have a warcoffee and write about this madness we still call life here.

Heather Long In normal times, Americans would be talking about this on Twitter. Instead everyone falls for Trump's daily slop and people are instead talking about Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift. America deserves to fail if we are this stupid.

BREAKING: Russia overnight launched one of its most intense drone attack on Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion in 2022. Russia fired a total of 273 exploding drones and decoys overnight, Ukraine’s air force said apnews.com/article/russia…

This speaks for a lot of us. open.substack.com/pub/johnpavlov…