Episode 637- The Big, Beautiful Bill: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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In this episode of The P.A.S. Report, Professor Nick Giordano breaks down the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that just passed the House and now goes to the Senate through budget reconciliation. While the bill offers some middle-class tax relief, work requirements, and border enforcement, it fails on fiscal responsibility, limited government, and bureaucratic overreach. Professor Giordano exposes how the bill expands federal power, increases spending, and continues rewarding the same agencies that have abused their authority. He makes it clear that real reform is essential and getting back to the principles of fiscal responsibility and limited government is the real way to usher in the next golden age of America.

Episode Highlights:

Why Congress hasn’t passed a real budget since 1997 and how reconciliation is being abused
The good: No tax on tips or overtime, Trump tax cuts extended, border wall funded, work requirements imposed for some entitlement programs like Medicaid and SNAP
The bad and ugly: Debt ceiling hike with no reform, departments and agencies continue to see funding increases, and continued bureaucratic bloat

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The Big, Beautiful Bill: The Good, the Bad, and the Bureaucratic

The House has passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” a sweeping budget reconciliation package packed with tax reforms, border security measures, and welfare requirements. But does it live up to its name? In this episode of The P.A.S. Report, I break down the good, the bad, and the bureaucratic mess hiding inside the bill.

There are some great things in the bill, but when you dig beneath the surface, you’ll find this bill bloats federal power, increases spending, and completely misses the mark on accountability and limited government.

🟢 The Good: Middle-Class Relief and Common Sense Reform

There are a few victories worth highlighting:

No tax on tips and overtime: A big win for service workers and hourly employees.
Extension of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts: Keeps more money in the pockets of middle-class families and small businesses.
Work requirements for SNAP and Medicaid: Encourages responsibility while reducing fraud.
Border security funding: Includes money for the wall and expanded ICE enforcement.
Limits the power of the Department of Education to unilaterally impose executive actions.

These are the kinds of kitchen-table policies that resonate with working Americans, not corporate handouts, not elitist incentives.

🔴 The Bad: Massive Spending and Missed Opportunities

But here’s where the bill starts to fall apart.

It raises the debt ceiling without any serious effort to cut spending or reduce the deficit.
The Department of Defense gets a blank check, despite failing every audit since 2018.
Federal agencies like the FBI, IRS, and DHS, all of which have abused their power, get budget increases, not cuts.
Special-interest carveouts remain intact, including wasteful programs like rural broadband expansion.

National security doesn’t require unchecked spending. Bureaucratic failure shouldn’t be rewarded.

❌ The Ugly: Growing the Government Under a New Banner

For a bill that claims to put America First, it still:

Expands the size and scope of the federal government
Grows the administrative state with new programs, credits, and pilot initiatives
Fails to include structural downsizing or agency eliminations

There are no new oversight mechanisms, no mandatory audits, and no enforcement of fiscal discipline.

Worse, the bill projects policy ten years into the future, yet President Trump only has 3.5 years left in office. We need to see real reforms, not just lip service.

Any agency that has abused its power doesn’t deserve funding increases. They deserve funding cuts.

🎙️ Final Thought

The “One Big Beautiful Bill” offers some conservative ideas, but the truth is it fails where it matters most: fiscal responsibility, limiting government, restoring accountability, and protecting liberty.

“If we want limited government, we need more than flashy titles and tax cuts, we need the political courage to defund and dismantle the bureaucracy.”

Don’t be fooled by the branding. Listen to the full breakdown now and get the analysis you won’t hear anywhere else.

Timestamps

01:00 The Left Praises Elias Rodriguez
02:30 The One, Big, Beautiful Bill
05:01 The Good: Real Relief for Working Americans
19:26 The Bad and the Ugly: Big Government, Bigger Disappointment
31:07 Words Don’t Bring Reforms, Actions Do

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