May 20,2025
From Concerned Citizen on Facebook
This analysis of the dangerous “poison pill” provisions in the so-called Big Beautiful Bill was DMed to CC (me) by a follower and is definitely worth a read. Thank you!👇
“Buried in big beautiful.. please investigate yourself and post..
They buried it on page 602 of a 1,116-page bill.
And you weren’t supposed to notice.
But tucked deep in the “One Big Beautiful Bill” is a time bomb—a clause that would gut the courts.
Strip them of their teeth.
Silence them in the face of executive defiance.
Here’s the hustle:
If a federal court tells this administration to stop violating people’s rights—and they refuse?
Normally, the court can hold them in contempt.
Fine them.
Jail them.
Force compliance.
But this bill says they can’t—unless the accuser put up a cash bond first.
Are you hearing what I’m saying?!
You want to stop this administration’s policies?
Better bring your checkbook.
And in civil cases—like 99% of the ones Trump’s facing?
Nobody posts bonds. That’s not how justice works.
So let’s say:
• A small immigrant rights org tries to stop the deportation of 100 people.
• Government lawyers claim it’ll cost them $50,000/day to delay removals.
• The judge could demand a $250,000 bond or more as “security.”
And if the org can’t pay that?They get the injunction—but it’s meaningless.
Because under this bill, no bond=no enforcement
This is justice for the wealthy only.
And here’s the kicker: The bill also limits how courts can issue injunctions and temporary restraining orders (TROs) in the first place.
It shifts power away from the judiciary—making it harder for judges to pause or block government action at all.
So not only would the courts be powerless to enforce their orders…
They’d be less able to issue them in the first place.
So what does that mean?
It means the courts can scream, “Stop!”
And the administration can whisper back, “Make me.”
And the law can’t do a DAMN thing about it.
It’s not just unconstitutional. It’s un-American.
And they’re selling it to Republicans by declaring:
“We can’t save America unless we sneak in the power he needs.”
The pattern of clandestine and nefarious sh*t continues. If so many Americans want this as they claim? Why do they keep operating in the shadows and hiding their true intent?
But wait—that’s just one landmine.
This bill ain’t a budget.
It’s. A. Trojan. Horse.
And it’s stuffed with poison pills for the American people:
Page 291:
A 10-year moratorium on state regulation of AI.
That means if your state passes a law to protect you from algorithmic discrimination, facial recognition abuse, or predictive policing?
Too bad. This bill says states can’t enforce it.
It opens the door to UNREGULATED AI SURVEILLANCE—on your kids, your job apps, your medical data, every second and search you make online, your every damn move.
Pages 425–443:
Massive cuts to Medicaid & SNAP.
More work requirements. Higher costs for low-income families.
More hoops. Less help.
Millions could lose food assistance and healthcare, while billionaires get HUGE tax breaks.
Pages 487–502:
Education gut job.
Ends subsidized loans for undergrads.
Strips the Dept. of Ed from cracking down on predatory schools.
Under Obama, the DOE had a rule that said:
If a school receives federal student aid (Pell Grants, loans, etc.), they must show that their grads can get decent-paying jobs—or lose access to that money.
That rule helped shut down diploma mills and shady for-profit schools like Corinthian and ITT Tech, which exploited students—especially low-income, Black, Brown, and veteran students—while collecting billions in federal aid.
What this bill does:
It blocks or removes the Secretary of Education’s authority to:
• Enforce Gainful Employment rules,
• Pull funding from scam schools,
• Or create new regulations that hold schools accountable for outcomes.
In plain language?
It lets corrupt schools get fat off federal student aid while giving students nothing in return.
And if you know, you know. This ain’t policy—it’s personal. Remember HIS University?
But it goes even further and makes Pell Grants harder to get—unless you’re in trade school, serving corporate labor needs.
They are trying to devour the middle class. Creating a two-tiered social system of the very wealthy and the very poor. It’s much easier to control folks who are financially desperate.
Pages 552–589:
$70 billion for border militarization.
$46.5B for more walls.
$5B for CBP facilities (It’s infrastructure for mass processing, concentration camps, tent cities, expanded detention centers, surveillance, and confinement.)
$4.1B for hiring more agents.
This ain’t about safety—it’s about fear.
This ain’t about keeping immigrants out—it’s about potentially holding Americans prisoner.
It’s a surveillance state, on steroids, at the border and beyond.
You know that vacation you were planning… that honeymoon to Paris? How does Vegas sound? Or Niagara Falls? Cause you can’t cross the border. Welcome to the Handmaid’s Tale 2025.
And then we circle back to page 602:
Where they try to silence the courts.
Where they tie the hands of the last institution willing to challenge this administration’s power.
Where they say: unless a bond was paid in advance, the court can’t do a damn thing to stop injustice.
And at the same time—they’re rewriting the rules that govern when injunctions and TROs can even be issued.
This is a full-scale dismantling of judicial oversight.
So let me say it louder for the people in the back:
This bill is NOT about the budget. It’s not about prosperity.
It is an attack on every system that protects you from unchecked power.
It is legislative extortion disguised as patriotism.
A thousand pages of policy dressed like democracy—
but moving like a coup.
WHAT CAN I DO?!
Call Congress. TODAY.
📞 202-224-3121
Flood their lines. Melt the switchboard. Blow the damn whistle.
Tell them to STRIP the contempt and injunction/TRO clause.
STOP the AI surveillance trap.
SAVE Medicaid, SNAP, Pell Grants, and the courts.
And if there was ever a time to spread a message like wildfire—this is it.
Share it. Repost it. Text it to your group chats.
Because if this bill passes, it won’t just rewrite policy—it will rewrite the power structure of this entire country.
Also, we fight like hell to save democracy, but also WE MAKE A PLAN—we will not scatter like ants
—MAKE A PLAN.”
