The bill on the reconciliation of the Chamber – officially known as A great act of bill – is extraordinary in how much he deprive the poor to stimulate the rich. His tax reductions for the rich are funded by reductions in health care coverage (both Medicaid and Obamacare) which will help the Republicans to inflate the ranks of the non-assured by 16 millionAccording to the Congressional Budget Office.
But the Big Beau Bill is not only a ugly tax invoice where the less fortunate company is made of sacrifice for the benefit of the richest. It is also a spending bill that leads hundreds of billions of dollars in new pet projects. This is funded by debt. Overall, the BBB will increase deficits by 2.4 billions of dollars over 10 years, according to CBO, probably increasing the national debt per $ 3 billion When payments of interest is included.
The expenses of the bill have angry budgetary hawks in the Senate like Rand Paul (R.-ky.). This was part of the public division between Donald Trump And Elon MuskWho calls the bill a “disgusting abomination” which will waste any supposed economy imposed by DOGE, the so-called Ministry of Government efficiency.
Analysts of the Conservative Budget seem the alarm: “This inability to set priorities will bring a debt crisis,” said Jessica Riedl, a main woman at the Manhattan Institute Rolling Stone. In fact, the bill would create so many new debts that it may trigger a mechanism called “forcible confine”, which would impose a deep and compulsory Medicare cuts. These health care reductions for American seniors would begin next year and reach half a billion dollars over ten years.
BBB expenditure provisions have received much less control than tax reductions and oblique safety bars. But Bill’s new funds on a range of already fatty cats – from the military -industrial complex and great technology with private prisons and construction problems.
Below, we examine the biggest boondogles of the great beautiful bill:
Border wall
The BBB offers almost expenses $ 50 billion For the construction of Trump’s border wall with Mexico. Senator Paul, in an appearance on Face the nation Last week, accused the administration of waste. He quoted an estimate of customs and existing border patrols according to which the construction of the wall should only cost about 6.5 billion dollars out of 1,000 miles: “They inflated the cost of the wall eight times”, ” said Paul. (After his television success, CPB seems to have rubbing construction cost estimate Paul quoted on his website.) Paul even questioned the need for more wall, since Trump “essentially stopped the border flow without new money and new legislation”.
Just offering a little taste of the planned Bonanza, the Trump administration awarded a wall construction of $ 70 million of $ 70 million contract in California Granite construction In March.
Detention camps
The bill includes $ 45 billion For “adult extraterrestrial detention capacity” and “family residential centers”. This funding would allow the administration to strengthen its mass expulsion program for undocumented immigrants. As the nation has seen from recent large -scale raids of immigration and customs in restaurants, this implies destroying the productive members of society and doing state services, at a public cost, until they can be expelled.
Money would be a boon for private prison entrepreneurs and construction companies. For a taste of what is directed, consider that the administration has already signed an agreement of $ 15 billion with a billion dollars with Geo group To shelter ice prisoners in Delaney Hall, an installation of 1,000 beds in Newark, New Jersey. The mayor of the city was arrested by ice in the middle of a recent demonstration in the establishment.
The private prison company is well linked to the Trump administration. As Roller reported that the Attorney General Pam Bondi is a former lobbyist For Geo Group, who also made A donation of $ 500,000 to the inaugural committee of Trump. A GEO subsidiary donated $ 1.3 million to a Super CAP that supported Trump’s elections in 2024.
The baby puts almost 25 billion dollars For the golden dome. The satellite anti -missile defense project develops the brand of the “Iron Dome” of Israel, a defensive soil system which can intercept the rockets and missiles launched from local activists or state actors such as Iran. “Insofar as we correspond to Iron Dome Technology, we will be well protected against a missile attack in Canada or Mexico,” said Sarcaststically Riedl of the Manhattan Institute. “But not necessarily Russia, North Korea or China.”
In reality, the Golden Dome seems to be Trump’s revival of the strategic defense initiative of the Ronald Reagan era, or SDI – a very expensive and largely ineffective spatial missile defense system shot in the 1980s as “Star Wars”.
“In the end, this represents 25 billion dollars more for SDI,” explains Rieidl. “It is a noble idea – but a lot of expenses so far have not brought great success.”
Trump plans that the BBB as a payment payment over a total investment of $ 175 million. The Golden Dome promises to be a golden goose for defense entrepreneurs. SpaceX, the rocket company founded by the billionaire of Trump, the benefactor Elon Musk, who Currently arguing with Trumpwould be in the running for a contract. The same goes for Raytheon And Lockheed Martin.
Military-industrial nonsense
Including the golden dome, the major Big Bill bill increases Pentagon colossal 150 billion dollars. “This is a bill for defenders of the military-industrial complex who reimburses the military budget,” according to Paul, who has long criticized the Ministry of Defense for not having adopted each audit to which he was submitted.
Budgets are moral documents. And metaphorically people often talk about the compromise between “firearms and butter” – or programs that defend the public and those who keep the public out of misery.
The side of the firearms of the great beautiful bill is entirely funded by butter cuts. Invoice bands 128 billion dollars In funding in the United States for the SNAP food aid program that prevents US families from hungry. It also aims to avoid additional expenses of $ 92 billion by bringing people out of the program with administrative formalities and work requirements, including for 8 -year -old parents.
Riedl argues that the Pentagon should be forced to reach costs before receiving new federal dollars. “One of the great Dogee failures was essentially to ignore the enormous outbursts of waste and costs inside the Pentagon. There is a reason why the Ministry of Defense cannot adopt an audit. There is so much waste. It has significant costs of costs – especially in government contracts and purchases – which must be sent before increasing defense spending, “said Manhattan Institute.
The house bill directs money to more than a dozen weapons systemsIncluding many costs, construction delays, performance problems and combat capacity.
On the plane side, this list includes:
- $ 4.5 billion For the B-21 Raider, the latest long-range stealth bomber of the Air Force, which costs almost $ 700 million by plane to produce. The plane to two people from Northrup Gruman can be poorly suited to modern war fights, where swarms of unmanned drones become the dominant air threat.
- $ 3.2 billion For the F-5EX built by Boeing. Plans cost $ 90 million per pop, making them more expensive than the F-35A notoriously expensive. Unlike this fighter, the F-15EX is not a stealth plane. And production has been hampered by manufacturing problems. A recent federal assessment In other words: “Boeing has experienced increased quality deficiencies.”
Ships include:
- $ 4.6 billion For Virginia class submarines. The nuclear submarine program has a reported A cost surpassing of $ 17 billion and has delivered boats massively late. Entrepreneurs are General Dynamics Electric Boat and Huntington Ingalls Industries. The Pentagon already has 23 of these submarines.
- $ 2.1 billion For the San Antonio class “amphibious transport docks”. This ship was put on production break in 2023 due to overruns of massive costs. The boats are supposed to land the navies in a fight on the ground, but were found by Dod testers To agree only “in a benign environment” because the ship is not “effective, appropriate and not survivable in a combat situation”. Huntington Ingalls Industries is the entrepreneur. The Pentagon already has 13 of these boats.
