House Passes Trump's Preferred Budget Bill as RINO Senators Balk at Serious Spending Cuts

We need to fire all the RINO Senators.

The Freedom Caucus balked yesterday after seeing the Senate version, which barely trimmed spending at all. Trump and Johnson conferred with Senate Majority Leader John Thune and hammered out an agreement to get at least $1.5 trillion in reductions, although it's not clear what time scale that uses...

I think it's pretty clear they mean that over a 10-year window, which is what they always mean.

Elon Musk was shooting for one trillion in cuts per year. The Senate has promised to find $1.5 trillion in savings -- but note that Grifter Washington always talks about budgets in ten-year windows. So what they're talking about is $150 billion per year, for ten years.

And oh, by the way, they always lie even about that. They tend to claim they're planning for no cuts in the short term, years 1 through 6, but then HUGE cuts in years 7 through 10.

Spoiler alert: We never get to years 7 through 10. Years 7 through 10 always remain 7-10 years away.

Still, passing a budget does allow Congress to use reconciliation to pass a lot of stuff with a simple majority.

It's the bill Trump wanted, at least.

House Republicans on Thursday approved a budget framework allowing lawmakers to start drafting President Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill."

The legislation will implement elements of Trump's domestic policy agenda, which includes tax cuts and increased spending on defense, energy, and border security.

The budget blueprint was approved Thursday by a vote of 216 to 214. Ultimately, two Republicans voted no. The vote is a victory for Trump and other Republican leaders who spent days convincing fiscal hawks within the Republican party to vote for the bill despite their frustration over the level of spending cuts included in the Senate version of the plan that passed on Saturday. The Senate framework outlines only about $4 billion in spending cuts. The House version seeks at least $1.5 trillion.

Now that Republicans have passed identical versions of the framework in the House and Senate, they are able to unlock a special budget tool known as reconciliation -- a complicated process that allows them to avoid a filibuster in Senate and pass a final version of the legislation with a 51-vote simple majority.

The bill includes $4 billion in tax cuts and, of course, an increase in the debt ceiling of $5 trilly.

posted by Ace at 12:17 PM

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