For long hours on Monday, senators looked into the controversial One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB), Donald Trump’s budget bill. Elected officials must possibly vote during the night on the bill criticized as much by Bernie Sanders as by Elon Musk.
Why the One Big Beautiful Bill Is it controversial?
If it is adopted, the OBBB, the major budgetary bill of Donald Trump, will redirect the expenditure of the American government, and with them the face of the American economy.
For example, Republicans have been talking about having to decrease taxes for a long time, but this law would have been the first for decades to impoverish the poorest Americans while enriching the richest Americans.
On average, the 10 % of the poorest Americans would see their disposable income decrease by $ 1,559 per year due to the OBBB, reported The press Last Thursday. In return, the richest 10 % would each be enriched by $ 12,044 per year.
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OBBB also provides for the abolition of nutritional assistance and health insurance to millions of vulnerable Americans, an increase in military and expenditure on the border. It would also increase the debt of the federal government of around 3800 billion US, a problem which the Republicans had nevertheless promised to tackle in the electoral campaign.
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Dozens of people demonstrated against the OBB on Monday in Washington. “This coffin represents a political murder! », We can read above.
Finally, in addition to eliminating subsidies from renewable energies, such as solar and wind energy, the bill provides for the taxation of a tax ranging from 8 % to 18 % on new renewable energy production projects, making many experts say that it would kill any development of this advanced industry in the United States.
“The United States is about to leave the field, assigning China a major economic lever for the XXIe century, ”wrote on X Doug Lewin, energy expert.
Who criticizes the law?
Overall supported by Republican elected officials, the law attaches strong criticism from the left and the right.
For Senator Bernie Sanders, the law is “the most dangerous legislative text in modern history (of) country. This is a gift made to the billionaire class, which will cause enormous suffering to workers’ families. ”
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The senator of Vermont Bernie Sanders, in the Senate Monday
Billionaire Elon Musk, who supported Trump during the electoral race and who has long been his ally before leaving the White House in the spring, adopted a similar tone. “A major strategic error is currently being made, which harms solar energy and batteries and will make America extremely vulnerable to the future,” he wrote on X.
Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican Senator, said that he would vote against the bill in its current form. “Once this bill has been voted and the debt ceiling has been approved, debt will be the responsibility of the Republican Party, and it will no longer be possible to campaign by saying:” It is the fault of the Democrats. ” It will be the responsibility of the Republicans, “he said as a warning to the members of his party on CNBC.
What is the purpose of the law?
Michael Labossiere, philosopher and author who teaches theories of knowledge at Florida University in Florida, in Tallahassee, is categorical: cuts in nutritional assistance programs will “make deaths” among the most vulnerable Americans. “Millions of people will lose their health coverage and food aid,” he said in an interview.
The goal of the law, he says, is not so much to reward the rich as to show “cruelty” towards poor people.
“The example of this cruelty is Joni Ernst, republican senator of Iowa, who responded last month to the concern of an voter who feared that these budget cuts kill people by pointing out that” we will all die one day “. »»
In an “apologies” video, Mme Ernst reaffirmed his position, and made fun of his voters, thus dissipating any doubt that people could have had on his contempt and his cruelty, notes Mr. Labossiere.
“So it is not so much a government” by the rich for the rich “as a government” by the rich against the poor, “he said. The ruling class openly displays its contempt for those who are not rich like it. It aims, without exaggeration, to make the lower classes suffer and die. »»
