It wasn’t long ago that congressional Republicans railed against voting for “omnibus” budget legislation, but that was before President Donald Trump demanded support for what he calls the “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
As Trump rants about judges upholding the law and interfering with his efforts to rule like a king, the Republicans’ bill would even limit judges’ ability to enforce their orders.
Republican leaders have stuffed the legislation—passed by the House and now before the Senate—with provisions to please Trump and every corner of the right-wing base. Trump’s Christian nationalist allies are portraying support for the package as a way to push their anti-abortion and anti-equality social agenda under cover of the budget process, along with Trump’s priority tax cuts for billionaires and cuts to social safety net programs.
Jim Garlow, a dominionist Christian activist who promoted Trump’s efforts to stay in power after the 2020 election, welcomed the America First Policy Institute’s chief government affairs officer Matthew Henderson onto his regular prayer call Wednesday night to promote the Republican’s budget bill. Garlow thanked God in advance for helping pass legislation he said would bring a “needed biblical, scriptural, moral, ethical correction to our nation in this critical time.”
Republican leaders have stuffed the legislation—passed by the House and now before the Senate—with provisions to please Trump and every corner of the right-wing base. Trump’s Christian nationalist allies are portraying support for the package as a way to push their anti-abortion and anti-equality social agenda under cover of the budget process, along with Trump’s priority tax cuts for billionaires and cuts to social safety net programs.
Jim Garlow, a dominionist Christian activist who promoted Trump’s efforts to stay in power after the 2020 election, welcomed the America First Policy Institute’s chief government affairs officer Matthew Henderson onto his regular prayer call Wednesday night to promote the Republican’s budget bill. Garlow thanked God in advance for helping pass legislation he said would bring a “needed biblical, scriptural, moral, ethical correction to our nation in this critical time.”
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