TRUMP'S BBB BUDGET. NO BS APPRAISAL

"By the time the Senate finally voted, at least 15 discrete, high-profile policy provisions had been carved out of the “One Big Beautiful Bill.” Senator John Thune’s decision to defer totally to Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough—and to warn wavering Republicans that he would not muster the 51 votes needed to over-rule her—meant that every item she flagged under the Byrd Rule was either rewritten beyond recognition or yanked outright."

"The Trump budget's biggest accomplishment may not be in how it reallocates dollars—but in how it forced these swamp actors into daylight, naming and shaming their priorities.

And in politics, when you force your enemies to defend the indefensible—like funding ghost programs or NGO backchannels—you’ve already changed the game."