So as I said in the title, since we do research like crazy, can someone determine if the government will be ending social security, medicare, medicaid, SNAP, etc? She's a leftist and probably believes the media at their word, I simply don't watch TV anymore. I got dealt a bad hand in life (will elaborate with DMs if anyone wants to know), and 4 of us live together with social security as our major source of income. If we lose it, we're basically homeless.
I don't believe that the entitlements will literally be ended, but it's something to worry about, not that I need any more stress in my life. Has anyone already done research on the bill?
Here's the link to the house bill: https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20250519/2025_budget_Rec_RH_xml.pdf
It's horrendous that "bills" are so damn long, and aren't titled as "a law."
Also regarding Bills.
They cannot, by definition be 'Law'
A Bill is meant to be a pre-cursor to law. It is the opportunity for the chamber to debate each point, before making a law. One does not want to have the president 'make a law', or a judge, for that matter. Laws are meant to be written by the people, for the people etc., so theoretically, congress are representatives of the people. Congress writes the laws.
Yes the Bills are long, and they are meant to be as detailed as humanly possible - muh more detailed than a hundred page thesis for one person - remember we are talking fifty states. The research involved is stupendous. However, that is congress' job. Well it is supposed to be. What happens is: every congress person will supposedly check how 'their' state will be affected.
It's diffiult to limit the length of bills, because there are lots of aspects to consider: Think multiple reports on (human rights, especially, but also property rights, common law, hunting licences, commercial developments, infrastructure, economics, politics, bad-news-breaking tactics, media, alt-media, etc., etc, ......, and lots of members of congress, who presumably want to know, what's in it for their state, etc. And, if not, why not? etc.
To reduce it to some sort of logic: That's a minimum of fifty pages just there - one individualized page per congress-member. However, every congress-member has to receive a sheaf of pages, arranged acording to the first list. A decent read is say- sixty pages? The size of a detailed report? Hundred or more - like a small thesis or book - takes several days to read? Times that number by fifty, because each state needs their own version.
There will be several 'readings', which can lead to long speeches from the 'opposition'. Presumably each congress member has to thunk upon their portion of it, and at least open their mouth.
That's how it's supposed to work.
It also depends on how many items Congressmen attempt to add to the bill; addendums and amendments.