By Sundance

January 7, 2025

Putting the legislative package together is the obvious intention of Senate Republican leadership traveling to Mar-a-Lago to discuss the best process for the Border Security, Tax and Energy proposals.

President Trump initially wanted one big legislative package under reconciliation rules that permits Republicans to pass the legislation without Democrat party input. House Speaker Mike Johnson supported the same approach. However, the Senate republicans are worried they would have a harder time getting their personal indulgences in one bill.

Their Senate bribery system, their personal payment process through lobbyists, actually works better if they can negotiate each legislative proposal separately. Breaking the legislation into separate bills, especially the tax stuff, makes the payments from lobbyists much more targeted and lucrative.

WASHINGTON DC – Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) told reporters earlier Monday that Senate Republicans would soon be meeting with Trump “and talk about what he’d like to have done.”

“We’re all heading in exactly the same direction where we want to get to,” Barrasso told reporters, though he declined to discuss any details of the planned meeting.

Various House Republicans are expected to go down to Mar-a-Lago for meetings on reconciliation priorities throughout the weekend.

Trump endorsed the one-bill strategy for the tax, border and energy package on Sunday night on Truth Social. But he indicated he was still open to a two-track strategy in public comments on Monday.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune has backed a two-bill strategy, though he was careful not to emphasize that position Monday after Trump’s comments. But Ways & Means Chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.) has pushed to put everything in one large bill, a strategy that has support from Speaker Mike Johnson.

Regardless of how much they frame their authorship, congress does not write the laws or legislation, special interest groups do. Lobbyists are paid, some very well paid, to get politicians to go along with the need of the legislative group.

When you are voting for a Congressional Rep or a U.S. Senator you are not voting for a person who will write laws. Your rep only votes on legislation to approve or disapprove of constructs that are written by outside groups and sold to them through lobbyists who work for those outside groups.

While all of this is happening the same outside groups who write the laws are providing money for the campaigns of the politicians they need to pass them. This construct sets up the quid-pro-quo of influence, although much of it is fraught with plausible deniability.

This is the way legislation is created.

If your frame of reference is not established in this basic understanding you can often fall into the trap of viewing a politician, or political vote, through a false prism. The modern origin of all legislative constructs is not within congress.

“we’ll have to pass the bill to, well, find out what is in the bill” etc. ~ Nancy Pelosi 2009
“We rely upon the stupidity of the American voter” ~ Johnathan Gruber 2011, 2012.

Once you understand this process you can understand how political whores get rich.

For 2024, the Trump team has pre-organized legislative proposals that fulfill the policy goals made during the campaign. The border security bill, the energy proposals and the tax proposals are all legislative constructs created independent of congress by allies of President Trump 2.0

The debate now is how do the Senators get paid by lobbyists when the lobbyists have not had control of the language within the legislative policy?

Thus, a meeting to Mar-a-Lago is needed to work out how the Senators can get paid, and what elements of the special interests will be included in the legislation. The tax policy is the trickiest, because the corporations need control over their specific loopholes.

There are trillions at stake.

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