Steve Scalise Says the GOP Already Has Big Plans for the First 100 Days

[applegrove]

Last edited Tue Oct 22, 2024, 01:04 PM - Edit history (1)

By Reese Gorman

https://www.notus.org/congress/steve-scalise-gop-big-plans-first-100-days-budget-reconciliation

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“Clearly, there’s some things he can do through executive action, like end catch and release,” Scalise continued, referring to the practice of releasing migrants detained at the border while they await an immigration hearing. “On day one, he would start negotiating ‘Remain in Mexico,’ but he would need additional funding to get back to constructing the wall, and we could put that in something like budget reconciliation.”

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But for now, Scalise seems intent on fronting the money for a border wall through budget reconciliation, which would circumvent the Senate’s 60-vote threshold.

Asked about including reforms to Obamacare in budget reconciliation — Sen. Tom Cotton has suggested passing tax cuts and a health care overhaul in one package, raising the prospect that cutting Obamacare subsidies could be used to offset tax cuts — Scalise was less resolute on health care reforms than other items.

“The main things we’ve been talking about is getting the economy back on track and securing the border,” he said. “Of course, those are the top issues right now. I’m sure we’ll get into, you know, helping lower the cost of health care, addressing transparency in health care, which doesn’t exist right now.”

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Applegrove:

BS. Trump is going to be dictator on day one. They are trying to paint him like his first term. We know he surrounded himself with people who frustrated his worst fascist Impulses then. Ivanka, Jarred, and all the rest. Steven Miller fight his cruel border policy through. This time it will be all manner of cruelty. And revenge. And social engineering into autocracy. Don't let them paint Trump as the old version. He will be nothing like that.

[Johonny]

1. Extend tax cut for rich, go golfing

They have no other plans.

[lastlib]

4. Oh, DON'T count on that.....

They have plans to gut and filet America as we know it. Give them power, and they won't hesitate to mplement them.
Affordable health care--gone.
Social Security, Medicare, MedicAid--gone
SNAP--gone.
Environmental protection--gone.
Consumer protection--gone
Labor/Worker protection--gone...

Do I need to go on?

[calguy]

2. Yeah. They'll be rebuilding the party

After an embarrassing defeat in the election.

[CousinIT]

3. Correction: Trump is going to be a dictator FROM day one. n/t

[B.See]

5. You mean Trump stooge and sycophant Steve 'I didn't know I was boosting the Klan' Scalise?

THAT Steve Scalise??

House GOP leader once addressed white supremacists - PBS

Scalise, the chamber’s third-ranking Republican, served in the Louisiana Legislature when he appeared in 2002 at a convention of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization. Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke founded the group, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has classified as a hate group.

“Steve Scalise chose to cheerlead for a group of KKK members and neo-Nazis at a white supremacist rally and now his fellow House Republican Leaders can’t even speak up and say he was wrong,” said DCCC national press secretary Josh Schwerin.

[Initech]

6. And I'll gladly tell him where they can go shove their plans!

Fuck the GOP, fuck Trump, fuck the Heritage Foundation, fuck Fox News, and fuck their evil authoritarian agenda!