Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“Back on January 6, a day when important things tend to happen, I wrote about a quietly important moment in the as-yet-not-begun Trump presidency. Deciding whether to split up his agenda into multiple parts or to combine all of his tax cuts and all of his spending cuts into one overstuffed piece of legislation, Trump opted for the latter, calling it ‘the one big beautiful bill’. At the time, Speaker Mike Johnson surmised that everything could get wrapped up ‘by April or May.’ I said back then that one-bill agendas tended to fail, because they offer plentiful targets for opposition and maddening coalitional choices that typically leave everyone bruised and upset.” (05/12/25)
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-05-12-big-beautiful-bill-hanging-by-a-thread/