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(((Stephen Miller))) makes some very important points about the Big Beautiful Bill in a long Xweet.

I'm still going over the details, but a yuge claim, which in an admission against interest is backed up by Wikipedia, is that reconciliation rules for what it calls "budget reconciliation" cannot touch discretionary spending. that is, what's in theory specifically appropriated each year, like for NASA.

Thus the vast majority of DOGE "cute" are not germane. Scare quotes because if you want the USAID 90% haircut to stand, in practice that must be in a rescission bill, another parliamentary maneuver to get around the Senate filibuster.

Per Wikipedia, "Budget reconciliation bills can deal with mandatory spending, revenue, and the federal debt limit" and Social Security which is part of the first cannot be touched.

Since mandatory spending defines it by things like "everyone 63 and older can get paid." DOGE cuts of for example people over 120 years old need no Congressional action.

Thus the focus on Medicaid, a Federal-state "partnership" which is deeply corrupt when states tax providers and get paid by the Feds for that.

https://x.com/StephenM/status/1926715409807397204

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconciliation_(United_States_Congress)