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Author: Dope1 ⎊  😊 😞
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Subject: Support for the OBBB...from House dems
Date: 07/21/25 1:32 PM
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Funny how that works.

dailycaller.com - House democrats credit provisions big beautiful bill trump

Democratic lawmakers decried it as the “Big, Ugly Bill,” but some members of the minority party are beginning to praise — and even take credit — for various provisions within President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Communities across the country stand to gain billions of dollars in federal funding from the president’s sweeping tax relief and immigration law that Trump signed on July 4. Several congressional Democrats are beginning to claim responsibility for provisions they deem beneficial to their constituents despite fiercely opposing the bill during its passage.

Interesting. I imagine they'll be extra happy for the SALT tax limits being raised...

Democratic Missouri Rep. Wesley Bell has also cheered a provision within Trump’s signature bill despite arguing the budget package will be “cruel” and “devastating” for his constituents during debate over the bill’s passage.

The St. Louis area Democrat has praised the reauthorization and largest expansion to-date of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) within Republicans’ budget package. The provision was a long-sought priority of Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley who cited the RECA expansion as one of his reasons for backing Trump’s signature bill. The legislation would allow Americans living in certain zip codes, including those in Bell’s St. Louis, Missouri district to be eligible for compensation if exposed to nuclear waste.

Bell attended an event in St. Louis with Hawley touting the reauthorization and expansion of a fund for nuclear radiation victims stashed within the Trump-backed bill that he vigorously opposed.

He was asked to explain his “no” vote at the event in light of his celebration of the compensation fund for victims of nuclear radiation.

“You’re not going to always get everything you want,” Bell said. “And so there are some concerns and issues that many of us have with this budgetary bill, but at the same time, the folks who have been waiting a long time for compensation, to be acknowledged for their pain and suffering — that’s one thing that I can rejoice in,” Bell told reporters.

“This is one piece of that bill that I can be happy about,” Bell continued.

Good on Bell for saying that much. I used to live in his Congressional district. Glad to see that after years of legacy seats that maybe it has a sliver of decent representation.
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