"Because that’s exactly what they’re doing when it comes to Trump’s Big Bullshit Bill (BBB) - Republicans introduced this 940-page bill shortly before midnight on Friday. Why introduce a bill with even more draconian terms in the dead of night? For the SECRECY, folks."

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"The late, great journalist, Bill Moyers, once said, 'Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.' I wonder if he knew just how prescient he would be about Convicted Felon, Donald Trump, and his merry band of feckless Republicans who operate more like a crime syndicate than actual legislators."

~ Katie Phang

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https://katiephang.substack.com/p/secrecy-is-the-freedom-tyrants-dream

As Josh Marshall notes, citing a TPM Reader, "the 'Big Beautiful Bill' budgets fully $40 million dollars through what’s left of the National Endowment for the Humanities to the President 'for the procurement of statues' for the President’s 'Garden of Heroes.'”

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/40-million

The Republicans love to quote (highly select) scripture. I can think of a few verses that apply here:

"Whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in the inner rooms shall be broadcast from the housetops for all to hear!" (Luke 12:3)

"And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil." (John 3:19)

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"After forcing changes to the measure through challenges accepted by the Senate parliamentarian, Democrats tonight called out Republicans for releasing the new bill in the middle of last night and then trying to call a vote on it in the middle of tonight. They are demanding that the entire 940-page bill be read on the Senate floor.

As the Republican attempt to hide the budget reconciliation bill suggests, it is enormously unpopular."

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