Courtney Jo
cjbalacco.bsky.social
Courtney Jo
@cjbalacco.bsky.social
Reposted by Courtney Jo
As Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” faces final passage, experts warn of higher energy prices, kneecapped energy supply, and massive job losses.

Fox has set aside its concerns around energy prices, supply, and jobs to help Trump get the bill over the finish line.
Fox News misled its viewers on what Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” would mean for American energy, jobs, and manufacturing
President Donald Trump and the GOP’s sweeping domestic policy package, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” would roll back clean technology tax credits established under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act...
www.mediamatters.org
July 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Reposted by Courtney Jo
If someone doesn’t ask Karoline Leavitt why she posted on social media that this bill includes no taxes on Social Security when she knows it is a lie and she intentionally lied to the American people, everyone in the room should lose their jobs.
July 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Reposted by Courtney Jo
I won’t be able to afford my health insurance premiums because of ACA cuts—but hey, no sales tax on gun silencers. Fair trade off.

Are you fucking kidding me⁉️
#VoteHellNo
July 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Reposted by Courtney Jo
Mike Lee, who just added $4.1 trillion to the national debt, speaking in 2019: "We're playing with fire...If we don't address it sooner or later, our mounting national debt is going to get to the point where the interest will be unsustainable. We won't be able to pay it."
July 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Reposted by Courtney Jo
Mike Johnson is voting to cut Medicaid.

Nearly 40% of his district relies on Medicaid.
July 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Reposted by Courtney Jo
This is Nick Begich (R-Alaska). If he votes for the bill,
37,000 of his constituents lose access to their healthcare.
27,000 of his constituents lose access to their food assistance.
578 energy jobs in his district will disappear.
July 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Reposted by Courtney Jo
The American people won’t forget how Republicans voted to eliminate their health care and jack up their energy bills — all to give tax breaks to the wealthiest people in the country. 
 
Trump’s Big Ugly Bill is the ultimate betrayal. But the fight’s not over yet.
July 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Reposted by Courtney Jo
Rep. Dean: "The senators voted on this not knowing exactly what was in the bill. I bet they loved the part about no sales tax on silencers. Really, folks? We want to make silencers more plentiful in this country at the behest of the representative who owns gun stores? Conflicts of interest abound."
July 2, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Reposted by Courtney Jo
Flying under the radar with so much attention to Trump's megabill: The administration is also trying to introduce pre-authorization requirements to traditional Medicare. prospect.org/health/2025-...
Trump’s Sneak Attack on Medicare
For the first time, required pre-authorizations are coming to traditional Medicare.
prospect.org
July 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Reposted by Courtney Jo
Bartiromo: "We are waiting any moment now to get the jobs number for the month of June. The expectations call for the numbers to be up 95,000. Right now seeing the number -- actually, uh, showing a decline in jobs, uh, down 33,000, uh."
July 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Reposted by Courtney Jo
AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."
July 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Reposted by Courtney Jo
After President Donald Trump threatened to have Zohran Mamdani, the newly elected Democratic nominee for New York mayor, deported if he blocks Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in New York, Mamdani responded forcefully. wapo.st/3I6XkiZ
July 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Reposted by Courtney Jo
People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
June 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Reposted by Courtney Jo
There’s a weird thing on this website and lots of left-wing subcultures, where people love to throw around “liberal” as an insult, but from what I can tell liberals voted overwhelmingly against Cuomo and are rallying behind Zohran now.
June 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Reposted by Courtney Jo
If you don’t think that at some point he’s going to show more interest in the 5,044 nuclear weapons he controls, you’re as deluded as the people who thought he’d never tank the stock market and the economy.
April 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Reposted by Courtney Jo
As the economic news keeps coming out over the coming weeks keep one thing in mind: this is the fault of one man and didn’t need to happen.
April 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Reposted by Courtney Jo
Happy Liberation Day to all who celebrate the release of money from your retirement accounts into thin air.
April 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Reposted by Courtney Jo
April 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Reposted by Courtney Jo
Donald Trump's day so far:

- Stock market down another 2200 points
- Fires people after Laura Loomer tells him to
- Refuses to meet fallen troops
- Goes golfing instead
- Asshole
- Says "only the weak will fail"
- Trump is going to fail

It's still only 5pm
April 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Reposted by Courtney Jo
If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks.

The website to check linked in the reply.

www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
NC Court of Appeals gives over 60,000 challenged voters 15 days to prove eligibility
The majority wrote that, even though they have the authority to completely throw out the contested ballots, they decided to instead mandate a cure period for most of the challenged voters.
www.newsobserver.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Reposted by Courtney Jo
The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.
April 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Reposted by Courtney Jo
🏆
April 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Reposted by Courtney Jo
cnbc front page just before 3pm on friday 4.4.25

the president himself is off to a golf event.
April 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Reposted by Courtney Jo
The fact that everything around us is burning to the ground & some people still have no clue that they voted for the arsonist or are complicit in the arson is absolutely mind boggling.

People are ok with it so long as the black woman isn’t their President 🤯.

America, we have a problem!
April 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Reposted by Courtney Jo
I don’t believe more warning signs are required…
April 4, 2025 at 3:44 AM