Pasayten's Methow Valley Bulletin Board

Despite promises, the Bill the Rep's passed Tuesday
Does NOT include no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, or no tax on Social Security.

Instead it protects tax handouts for billionaires and makes way for the largest Medicaid cut in history.

Best not to listen to what they say but instead watch what they do.

Wall Street Journal:

DOGE is staffed by people who were hired privately by Elon Musk and are paid by him. The Trump White House believes it has figured out a way this can be legal. But no experts on government hiring think it is.
Katie Miller, a top aide to Elon Musk at the Department of Government Efficiency, spends much of her time on White House grounds, helping Musk plan and communicate his efforts to slash the federal government.
But she also spends time working for P2 Public Affairs, a major Republican consulting firm in Washington, which pays her full salary. She has continued to work for Fortune 100 clients, including Apple, offering public relations advice, according to people familiar with the matter. Since starting at the White House, Miller has also helped P2’s leaders pitch the firm to new clients for lucrative contracts, offering her guidance about Washington in this moment. Her husband is White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, among the most powerful advisers in the administration, controlling all domestic policy.
She’s one of a set of influential Trump employees who are working for the administration while simultaneously doing private-sector work.
They carry a three-letter designation that allows them to wear both hats: “SGE,” or special government employee. It’s a status under federal ethics laws that permits private-sector employees to work inside the government without having to relinquish their outside salaries or investments. Only a sliver of cases must publicly disclose clients or potential conflicts of interest. While the rules limit work to up to 130 days in any given year, it can be extended if the administration desires.
Others with the status include Steve Witkoff, who is handling peace talks between Ukraine and Russia and in the Middle East, Corey Lewandowski, now a top aide at the Department of Homeland Security, and Musk himself. Top officials such as Musk, Miller and Witkoff aren’t receiving government pay, and it wasn’t known if any SGEs are.
SGEs have been around since the early 1960s, when Congress first enabled administrations to bring in outside experts without requiring them to leave their positions in academia or the private sector. The designation has typically been used to allow subject matter experts to sit on advisory boards or serve in narrow, specialized roles without giving up their jobs, as regular government employees are required to do.'

Who says we "support" him? He's our Congressman whether we voted for him or not. That makes him our employee. Kind of like employing a doctor or a lawyer but often much more expensive.

We had to support him because the other person was radical. But Newhouse went along with the budget vote it appears. Yeah, get those no goods that are on Apple Health here in Wa. state off of Medicaid and don't give them an option of something else.
They want to bring us to our knees. As in see the video on tarriffs in the other post, instead of income taxes. Do it and see how you like it Jingles.

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Jingles wrote: Tue Feb 25, 2025 7:18 pm Glad to see the dems support the RINO Newhouse

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Yes….he has a long- shot at doing something right…..rather than siding with the complicit fascist a$$-lickers.
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Rep pass budget in 'the largest wealth transfer...'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... icaid-cuts

Glad to see the dems support the RINO Newhouse

I've called as well. Keep calling.

I've talked to a Newhouse staffer today. Two subjects that are of concern. A skeleton staff at Hanford and the firefighter freeze.
I'm call tomorrow about other subjects. Newhouse needs to stand up. It's unbelievable that Josh Hawley of all people said that they could not do what Vance quoted Andrew Jackson would do. Hawley was actually standing up for the justice system.
We need more Republicans to break away from this.
Call Patty and Maria too.