The Popcorn Trick: How the Senate Is Hiding a $4 Trillion Disaster

They say it costs $5. It will cost your healthcare, your future, and your children’s clean air, and they’re betting you won’t notice. Let’s prove them wrong.

Behind the branding, the Senate’s tax-and-budget package is a brutal piece of legislation that Republican leadership is pushing through in the dead of night while hoping you’re too exhausted or distracted to notice.

To understand what’s happening, let’s return to the “popcorn accounting” trick flagged by The Washington Post. Imagine you go to a movie. La…