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Civil service, federal union provisions removed from Senate reconciliation bill
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/congress/2025/06/civil-service-federal-union-provisions-removed-from-senate-reconciliation-bill/

TRANSCRIPT: Leader Schumer Holds Press Conference Following Passage Of Reconciliation Bill (The Senate Democratic Caucus)
https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/transcript-leader-schumer-holds-press-conference-following-passage-of-reconciliation-bill
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p128#a250702p128

If you haven't yet called your rep to oppose this disastrous budget bill, it's urgent to do it today! 5calls.org makes it easy: https://5calls.org/issue/hr1-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-budget-reconciliation/

I think it's really underappreciated that solar panels are now about as cheap per unit area as mass-produced building materials like wood, siding, shingles/shakes, etc.
The Republican reconciliation bill aims to make solar expensive again in the US through tariffs and taxes.
https://bsky…

A bipartisan group of over 260 US state legislators sign a letter opposing a federal budget bill provision that bans states from enforcing AI laws for 10 years (Sophia Fox-Sowell/StateScoop)
https://statescoop.com/state-lawmakers-push-back-fe…

State lawmakers push back on federal proposal to limit AI regulation
More than 260 state legislators from all 50 states have signed a letter opposing a provision in the federal budget reconciliation bill that would limit state power in regulating AI.

The Reconciliation Timeline Is Slipping as Trump Struggles to Flip Votes (NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/congress/reconciliation-timeline-slipping-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p108#a250702p108

Simplifying Root Cause Analysis in Kubernetes with StateGraph and LLM
Yong Xiang (Tsinghua University), Charley Peter Chen (Harmonic Inc), Liyi Zeng (Peng Cheng Laboratory), Wei Yin (Tsinghua University), Xin Liu (Tsinghua University), Hu Li (Unaffiliated), Wei Xu (Tsinghua University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02490

Simplifying Root Cause Analysis in Kubernetes with StateGraph and LLM
Kubernetes, a notably complex and distributed system, utilizes an array of controllers to uphold cluster management logic through state reconciliation. Nevertheless, maintaining state consistency presents significant challenges due to unexpected failures, network disruptions, and asynchronous issues, especially within dynamic cloud environments. These challenges result in operational disruptions and economic losses, underscoring the necessity for robust root cause analysis (RCA) to enhance Kube…

Several significant pieces of the House-approved spending bill are at risk of falling out of the legislation as it moves through the Senate
At least one of Thune’s members is already publicly floating that his party should be willing to directly overrule Senate Parlementarian MacDonough on the reconciliation bill.
In a tweet last month, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) wrote on X that “disagreeing with the Senate parliamentarian may be warranted if the parliamentarian gives bad advice, and …

"A last-minute provision inserted into President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful” budget reconciliation bill would allow Chile’s wealthiest business magnate — and former landlord to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump — to begin mining operations on protected federal lands."
A Chilean Billionaire Strikes Gold In The Budget Bill
https://www.levernews.com/a-chilean-billionaire-strikes-gold-in-the-budget-bill/

Do you think Democratic Party politicians are the same as Republican politicians?
For the budget reconciliation bill, all 45 Dem Senators ( independents King & Sanders) voted against it.
Vote was split 50/50, requiring VP Vance to break the tie.
If just one of the 50 Rs that voted for it had been replaced in the last election with a D, it's clear the bill in its current form would not have passed.

En Syrie, quatre mariages pour une réconciliation
https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2025/06/26/en-syrie-quatre-mariages-pour-une-reconciliation_6615936_4500055.html

En Syrie, quatre mariages pour une réconciliation
A Lattaquié, sur le littoral syrien, théâtre de tueries visant la minorité alaouite dont est issu le clan Assad, quatre couples de confession sunnite et chiite se sont unis lors d’un mariage collectif. Une façon de lutter contre les divisions communautaires qui déchirent le pays, comme vient encore de le montrer l’attentat du 22 juin contre une église à Damas.

How the reconciliation bill would change America (Don Moynihan/Can We Still Govern?)
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-reconciliation-bill-would
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p4#a250630p4

Modeling the uncertainty on the covariance matrix for probabilistic forecast reconciliation
Chiara Carrara, Lorenzo Zambon, Dario Azzimonti, Giorgio Corani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19554

Modeling the uncertainty on the covariance matrix for probabilistic forecast reconciliation
In forecast reconciliation, the covariance matrix of the base forecasts errors plays a crucial role. Typically, this matrix is estimated, and then treated as known. In contrast, we propose a Bayesian reconciliation model that explicitly accounts for the uncertainty in the covariance matrix. We choose an Inverse-Wishart prior, which leads to a multivariate-t reconciled predictive distribution and allows a completely analytical derivation. Empirical experiments demonstrate that this approach impr…

Ahead of a vote on Republicans’ budget reconciliation package expected as soon as noon Saturday,
U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Chair Mike Lee revived his effort to sell off public lands.
Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has blocked multiple provisions of the GOP megabill,
including several under the jurisdiction of the Utah Republican’s panel.
Among them is his attack on public lands.
“Here we go again,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) …

Mike Lee Tries to Sneak Public Land Sale Back Into 'Big, Ugly Bill' Ahead of Senate Vote | Common Dreams
Ahead of an expected vote on Republicans' budget reconciliation package, U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Chair Mike Lee revived his effort to sell off public lands.

Senate Takes Up Trump's Policy Bill, as G.O.P. Scrounges for Votes to Pass It (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/us/politics/senate-republicans-reconciliation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Sk8.biK_.7BdCGPeLtonK&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p17#a250629p17

The proposed sell-off of federal lands in the Senate budget bill includes a LOT of Joshua tree habitat—the trees grow in some of the largest areas of undeveloped land in the lower 48 states
The place where eastern and western Joshua trees hybridize, north of Creech AFB, is included
#JoshuaTree #USpolitics

A group of 17 GOP governors write to Senate majority leader and House speaker urging for the state AI bill moratorium to be removed from the reconciliation bill (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/tech-policy/2025

Exclusive: Republican governors want state AI pause out of budget bill
Many Republican-run states have passed AI-related laws and don't want to see them knocked down.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders condemned the Republican budget reconciliation package in stark terms during a floor speech late Sunday -- calling the measure
“the most dangerous piece of legislation in the modern history of our country”
and warning that its massive cuts to Medicaid, federal nutrition assistance, and other programs would have deadly consequences nationwide.
“Over 50,000 Americans will die unnecessarily every year,” said Sanders (I-Vt.),
referring to a recent…

Sanders Calls Trump-GOP Budget Bill 'Most Dangerous Piece of Legislation' in Modern US History | Common Dreams
"In my view, nobody in the Senate or the House should vote for this legislation," said Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Most fed-targeting provisions in Senate reconciliation bill don’t pass Byrd muster - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/06/most-fed-targeting-provisions-senate-reconciliation-bill-dont-pass-byrd-muster/406252/

https://www.highereddive.com/news/higher-ed-reaction-reconciliation-bill-obba-passage/752380/

‘One big mistake’: Higher ed sounds warning over GOP budget law
From higher endowment taxes to student loan limits, colleges and students will face a dramatically new landscape with the passage of a new spending law.

Republican Lawmakers Call for Senate Parliamentarian to Be Fired Over Reconciliation Rulings (Oriana Gonzšlez/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/congress/senate-parliamentarian-reconciliation-ruling
http://www.memeorandum.com/250626/p84#a250626p84

AFGE | Major AFGE Victory: Senate Parliamentarian Drops GOP Plans Gutting Civil Service in Reconciliation Bill
https://www.afge.org/article/major-afge-victory-senate-parliamentarian-drops-gop-plans-gutting-civil-service-in-reconciliation-bill/

(RNS) — ‘Faith leaders have been at the forefront of every progressive movement in our nation’s history … so I’m glad to see faith leaders speaking out and getting into good trouble in opposition to the upcoming reconciliation bill,’ Delaware Sen. Chris Coons told RNS.
https:…

To put pressure on Trump, Democrats turn to religion — and religious activists
(RNS) — ‘Faith leaders have been at the forefront of every progressive movement in our nation’s history … so I’m glad to see faith leaders speaking out and getting into good trouble in opposition to the upcoming reconciliation bill,’ Delaware Sen. Chris Coons told RNS.

ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas.
So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?
The answer is: you.
h…

Fresh megabill text overnight: what's in and what's out (Katherine Tully-McManus/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/28/megabill-reconciliation-parliamentarian-00431082
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p40#a250628p40

During a closed-door meeting of Republican senators on Tuesday, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) tried to tamper down fears of voter blowback against the proposed cuts to Medicaid spending in the GOP’s budget reconciliation bill,
⭐️claiming that voters will ultimately “get over it.”
The former Republican Senate leader’s comments came after Sen. Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina), one of the most vulnerable Senate GOP incumbents in the 2026 midterm elections, expressed concern that

Voters Will “Get Over It,” McConnell Tells GOP Colleagues Scared That Medicaid Cuts Will Hurt Them in Midterms
Polling consistently shows that voters strongly object to the Medicaid cuts proposed in the GOP reconciliation package.

“…leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift.”
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https://bible.com/bible/2016/mat.5.24.NRSV

Matthew 5:24 leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift. | New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) | Download The Bible App Now
leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift.

Tram Positioning with Map-Enabled GNSS Data Reconciliation
Jakub Ka\v{s}par, V\'it Fanta, Vladim\'ir Havlena
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08032 https…

Tram Positioning with Map-Enabled GNSS Data Reconciliation
This paper presents an approach to tackle the problem of tram localization through utilizing a custom processing of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) observables and the track map. The method is motivated by suboptimal performance in dense urban environments where the direct line of sight to GNSS satellites is often obscured which leads to multipath propagation of GNSS signals. The presented concept is based upon the iterated extended Kalman filter (IEKF) and has linear complexity (with…

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick: "If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more." — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/post/3lsp64jee722u

Meine nächste Folge Cyberpunk 2077 ist online.
Wir erleichtern die Welt um einen Snuff-Filmer, treffen Rogue, um von ihr etwas über Hellman zu erfahren, der den Relic Chip mitkonstruiert hat, und flanieren ein wenig durch Night City, über die Corpo Plaza... durch den Reconciliation Park... Heywood mit all seinen Gegensätzen.
https://…

A number game reconciliation
Prem Kant, Urban Larsson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04717 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.04717

A number game reconciliation
Number games play a central role in alternating normal play combinatorial game theory due to their real-number-like properties (Conway 1976). Here we undertake a critical re-examination: we begin with integer and dyadic games and identify subtle inconsistencies and oversights in the established literature (e.g. Siegel 2013), most notably, the lack of distinction between a game being a number and a game being equal to a number. After addressing this, we move to the general theory of number games…

Wow. Just wow. This must be the most ridiculous spam ever:
Dear Beneficiary:
Good day to you, dear lucky beneficiary. I am Honorable Marco Rubio, the newly appointed United States Secretary of State. The debt reconciliation for your inheritance compensation winning was discussed in a recent meeting with the U.S. National Central Bureau and the new President Donald Trump in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.

Last night just before midnight, Republicans released their new version of the omnibus budget reconciliation bill. ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-28-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p22#a250629p22

When Ashley Robinson and her mother took DNA tests 10 years ago and began meeting long lost cousins,
they stumbled across a surprising family history that changed their lives.
Robinson’s lineage traced back to the 272 West Africans who were enslaved by Jesuits
and sold to plantation owners in the southern US in 1838.
The sale of the enslaved Africans helped fund Georgetown University,
the oldest Jesuit higher education institution in the US,
and served a…

It is not AI that is driving tech layoffs. It’s the massive change in R&D writeoff rules that kicked in for TY2022, from the 2017 Trump tax bill.
The ability to “expense” R&D costs was in place for decades and arguably drove US innovation by making it cheap. Now R&D is amortized over 5 years for US work, 15 years for non-US work. The current reconciliation bill would bring back expensing of domestic R&D costs.

Trump’s budget reconciliation bill could reduce the speed of your Wi-Fi | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/news/694479/senate-bill-reduce-capacity-6ghz-wifi-band

Senate Republicans are under mounting pressure from
doctors and medical associations
to reject massive cuts to health care and food assistance
as they rush to complete a draft of the budget reconciliation bill
designed to implement Trump’s agenda.
Despite an ongoing debate over deep cuts to Medicaid
— cuts experts say would devastate already underfunded health systems especially in rural areas
— Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) pus…

Doctors Warn Medicaid Cuts in Senate Budget Bill Will Kill Their Patients
Protests against Medicaid cuts continued on June 25, which led to the arrests of 60 activists at the Senate.

Senate reconciliation bill would give Trump 'carte blanche' to reorganize agencies, lay off feds (Erich Wagner/GovExec.com)
https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/06/senate-reconciliation-bill-would-give-trump-carte-blanche-reorganize-agencies-lay-feds/406145/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p159#a250617p159

Simetrik, which uses AI to automate account reconciliation, raised a $30M Series B extension led by a Goldman Sachs Alternatives unit, taking the round to $85M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The Anatomy of India's Industrial Interdependencies: 7-Digit Product-Level Supply-Use and Input-Output Tables from ASI Data (2016-2022) with a Case Study of the Mobile Phone Sector
Sourish Dutta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13936

The Anatomy of India's Industrial Interdependencies: 7-Digit Product-Level Supply-Use and Input-Output Tables from ASI Data (2016-2022) with a Case Study of the Mobile Phone Sector
Outlines the construction of high-resolution, 7-digit product-level Supply-Use Tables (SUTs) and symmetric Input-Output Tables (IOTs) for the Indian economy, leveraging microdata from the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) for the period 2016-2022. We delineate a robust methodology encompassing the generation of detailed input and output flows, with a particular focus on the reconciliation of data from registered and unregistered manufacturing sectors through a meticulously developed NPCMS-NIC c…

'One more': Senate Republicans eye tackling another reconciliation bill (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/one-more-senate-republicans-eye-tackling-another-reconciliation-bill
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p95#a250714p95

What children in poverty could lose from the 'Big Beautiful Bill' (Cory Turner/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/20/nx-s1-5437851/children-poverty-republicans-big-beautiful-bill-reconciliation
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p41#a250620p41

Tech industry fears Musk-Trump rift fallout as some downplay its permanence, and sources say, try to stop Musk from appearing on an emergency All-In episode (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/df15f13d-310f-47a5-89ed-330a6a379068

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s allies urge reconciliation after damaging split
Tech industry fears commercial and political damage from breakdown in relationship between Tesla boss and US president

Senate Parliamentarian Blocks Republican Attacks on SNAP, CFPB in Reconciliation Bill | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/senate-parliamentarian

Take action in your community to help save Medicaid.
If you’re in a swing district or state, use our simple Neighbor2Neighbor tool to get a list of like-minded neighbors,
knock on their doors and talk to them about stopping the monstrous GOP megabill:
https://indivisiblepr…

The gargantuan budget bill Republicans passed through Congress will do its part to damage the American economy, at a moment of fear and instability.
In the broadest terms, the bill is an enormous upward transfer of wealth — perhaps the largest in history — taking from those with lower incomes and giving to the rich. And in its details there are dozens

The Republican budget is an attack on the American economy
Everywhere you look, it delivers blows to America's economic future.

Trump and Republicans in Congress will do their part to damage the American economy, at a moment of fear and instability.
In the broadest terms, their Big Bad Budget bill is an enormous upward transfer of wealth
— perhaps the largest in history
— taking from those with lower incomes and giving to the rich.
And in its details there are dozens if not hundreds of blows to the economy.

The Republican budget is an attack on the American economy
Everywhere you look, it delivers blows to America's economic future.

Estimated Budgetary Effects of Public Law 119-21, to Provide for Reconciliation Pursuant to Title II of H. Con. Res. 14, Relative to CBO's January 2025 Baseline (CBO Publications)
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61570
http://www.memeorandum.com/250721/p101#a250721p101

Planned Parenthood Gets Cut Off (Matthew Hennessey/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/planned-parenthood-gets-cut-off-republican-reconciliation-bill-trump-thune-johnson-f4ed3cdf
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p164#a250708p164

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has called for
every member of Congress who voted for Republicans’ reconciliation bill to be
ousted from their seat,
saying that the bill is “disastrous” and will only make the U.S. health care system even worse.
“Our broken health care ‘system’
is the most expensive and inefficient in the world.
Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ will make it even worse,”
Sanders said in a press release on Monday.
He went on to say tha…

Sanders: Members of Congress Who Voted for “Big Beautiful Bill” Must Be Ousted
Democrats must make the bill “the defining issue of the 2026 campaign,” Sanders said.

Republicans want unregulated AI. What could go wrong? (Paul Waldman/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/reconciliation-bill-ai-regulation-cruz-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p11#a250619p11

From its outset, Trump 2.0 has been grounded on systemic illegality and unilateral executive actions,
a course of (mis)conduct the administration has succeeded in pursuing because of pliant GOP majorities in Congress the Supreme Court.
It’s all but certain that the administration’s authoritarian conduct will grow in scope and intensity over the succeeding months,
in no small part because the GOP reconciliation bill will hand over a staggering $170 billion to the Department…

The emerging coup
Lawless authoritarian regimes don't give up power willingly.

6/10/25 ☀️ AM: ... But the reconciliation fight is impacting what's already ... (Punchbowl News)
https://punchbowl.news/archive/61025-am/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p9#a250610p9

What will our billionaire overlords get out of the “big, beautiful” budget reconciliation bill that narrowly cleared the Senate this week?
Higher interest rates, for one,
because the bill more than doubles the budget deficit;
this will benefit billionaire creditors but hurt billionaire borrowers.
The top marginal rate won’t rise from the present 37 percent to 39.6 percent, as it would have done in a Harris administration,
which is excellent news if you actual…

The Oligarchs’ Big Prize in Trump’s Budget-Busting Bill
Avoiding an income-tax increase is nice, but that’s not the bill’s greatest gift to the rich.

The Republican budget measure that Donald Trump signed into law late last week contains a provision that analysts say will
🔥allow private jet owners to write off the full cost of their aircraft in the first year of purchase,
❌a boon to the ultra-rich that comes as millions of people are set to lose healthcare under the same legislation.
FlyUSA, a private aviation provider, gushed in a blog post that with final passage of the unpopular budget reconciliation package,
…

The Return of 100% Bonus Depreciation: How 2025 Made Private Aircraft Ownership More Valuable Than Ever
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R.1) was permanently reinstated 100% bonus depreciation for capital equipment, including business & aviation aircraft.

An email sent by the US Social Security Administration (SSA) that claims Donald Trump’s major new spending bill has eliminated taxes on benefits for most recipients is misleading, critics have said.
Jeff Nesbit, who served as a top SSA official under Republican and Democratic presidents, posted on X: “The agency has never issued such a blatant political statement. The fact that Trump and his minion running SSA has done this is unconscionable.”
The reconciliation bill – which the p…

The Trump administration has quietly fast-tracked a massive oil expansion project that environmentalists and Democratic lawmakers warned could have a destructive impact on local communities and the climate.
As reported recently by the Oil and Gas Journal,
👉 the plan “involves expanding the Wildcat Loadout Facility, a key transfer point for moving Uinta basin crude oil to rail lines that transport it to refineries along the Gulf Coast.”
🔥The goal of the plan is to transfer an …

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With congressional approval and Trump's subsequent signature July 4, the 2025 tax reconciliation bill offers expanded opportunities for the oil and gas industry.