Senate G.O.P. Passes Budget Resolution, and Punts on Tough Questions

[Dante]

Here we go again. History is repeating itself over and over again -- when the GOP holds the power of the purse, controlling the purse strings. The history of the GOP and funding cuts, tax breaks - left to deal with later, has caused much of the fiscal troubles we experience today.

Senate G.O.P. Passes Budget Resolution, and Punts on Tough Questions
Approval of the Republican budget plan left major questions about tax cuts and spending reduction for another day.

On a largely party-line vote, 52-48, Senate Republicans won adoption of a blueprint that calls for a $150 billion increase in military spending [ is this a bait and switch thing? Trump administration orders Pentagon to plan for sweeping budget cuts ] and $175 billion more for border security over the next decade.

How will they pay for it? That’s a question for another day. What about the huge tax cuts they and Mr. Trump have promised? We’ll figure that out later, senators say.

A Case for Republican Fiscal Responsibility​

Republicans claim to be the party of fiscal responsibility. And with budget issues like the debt limit and expiration of President Trump’s tax cuts looming, expect more touting of their economic accolades. There’s one problem: their hands are dripping in red ink. Their record is full of fiscal hypocrisy.

Tax Cuts Are Primarily Responsible for the Increasing Debt Ratio
Without the Bush and Trump tax cuts, debt as a percentage of the economy would be declining permanently.

How the GOP tax overhaul compares to the Reagan-era tax bills
Making Sen$e Dec 4, 2017

Senator Lindsey Graham, the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, has said that his plan would be paid for through a mix of new revenue from domestic drilling and unspecified spending cuts.Credit...Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

Trusting people who have been shown to have lied to us before is just plain insanity. Some of these Republicans have been around long enough to have the experience of being able to initiate a fiscal crisis and later blame Democrats and everybody else. So -- Here we go again.

 

[Concerned American]

How will they pay for it?

With the money saved from USAID---you know, gender studies in Pakistan, Sesame St. in Iraq, gender transitions in animals, etc. You know all of that important democrat stuff. When are you going on your hiatus?

 

[Dante]

With the money saved from USAID---you know, gender studies in Pakistan, Sesame St. in Iraq, gender transitions in animals, etc. You know all of that important democrat stuff. When are you going on your hiatus?

Do you people-of-the-cult ever seek medical attention for the side effects of spinning so much?



"How will they pay for it? That’s a question for another day. What about the huge tax cuts they and Mr. Trump have promised? We’ll figure that out later, senators say."

 

[Dante]

With the money saved from USAID---you know, gender studies in Pakistan, Sesame St. in Iraq, gender transitions in animals, etc. You know all of that important democrat stuff. When are you going on your hiatus?

Back in 2018 (Who was the great Brain leading the GOP from the Oval Office?), we saw this unfolding as it is now:

The Specter of Reagan Haunts the GOP’s New Tax Plan
A brief history of how the GOP taxes the poor to reward the rich.
Joel Bleifuss January 10, 2018

Seven months after President Ronald Reagan took office, he signed the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981. Like the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that hurtled through the GOP Congress this past December, Reagan’s tax cut took from the poor and gave to the rich. As Reagan explained during his Sept. 21, 1980, presidential debate with John Anderson, the cuts also promised an additional benefit: slashing the government’s “allowance” and forcing spending cuts.

In his Aug. 12, 1981, editorial, “Next Time, Business Will be to Blame,” In These Times founding Editor & Publisher James Weinstein wrote:

Both the budget cuts and the tax cuts are primarily a transfer of income from working people and the poor to the super-rich individuals and giant corporations that promoted Reagan. “This, not the pompous business about reinvigoration of the system,” [Harvard economist John Kenneth] Galbraith asserts, “is the true motivation of the tax (and expenditure) cuts.” …

With the liberals’ failure to sustain growth and stability, there were, in theory, two paths open for the country. One was greater social control of investment, so that the country’s social ills could be rationally confronted. The other was an attack on the policies of recent decades as being already too socialistic, a reliance on private profit as a motive and a further strengthening of the large corporations as a method to stimulate the economy. With a Left totally in disarray and unprepared to meet the challenge, and a Right heavily financed and well organized within the Republican Party, there was never a contest. So now we have Reagan’s “new” partnership of the citizen and business being put forward as America’s great hope. …

While doing what it can immediately to minimize the Reagan administration’s attacks on Social Security, safety and health regulation, public education, support for low-income housing, mass transportation and social services in general, the Left must also begin thinking about the not-so-distant future when it will be called upon to offer a comprehensive, constructive program of its own.

 

[Dante]

Here we have a fuller context. It's all a part of Trump's nonsensical speak (childish-like gibberish of a man hearing himself speak and believing everybody listening is wowed by his inanities - an 80 year old trust fund baby Trolling because he's bored and seeks to suck the oxygen out of every room "Everybody out of the way! The Donald is HERE!" ) : One Big Beautiful Bill.

The Upshot
The House Wants to Pass Trump’s Agenda in One Big Bill. Here’s What’s in It.

By Margot Sanger-Katz and Alicia Parlapiano Updated February 21, 2025

On Tuesday, President Trump lauded a House budget blueprint that would enable Congress to pass much of his legislative agenda in what he called “ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL.” That budget, which passed a committee vote and could hit the House floor as soon as next week, lays out targets for legislation that would extend tax cuts and increase the federal deficit. It would also almost certainly make major cuts to programs that serve the poor.

and...

 

[Concerned American]

Here we have a fuller context. It's all a part of Trump's nonsensical speak (childish-like gibberish of a man hearing himself speak and believing everybody listening is wowed by his inanities - an 80 year old trust fund baby Trolling because he's bored and seeks to suck the oxygen out of every room "Everybody out of the way! The Donald is HERE!" ) : One Big Beautiful Bill.

The Upshot
The House Wants to Pass Trump’s Agenda in One Big Bill. Here’s What’s in It.

By Margot Sanger-Katz and Alicia Parlapiano Updated February 21, 2025

On Tuesday, President Trump lauded a House budget blueprint that would enable Congress to pass much of his legislative agenda in what he called “ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL.” That budget, which passed a committee vote and could hit the House floor as soon as next week, lays out targets for legislation that would extend tax cuts and increase the federal deficit. It would also almost certainly make major cuts to programs that serve the poor.

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Let me know when you have something more relevant than your speculative panic porn.

 

[Dante]

Let me know when you have something more relevant than your speculative panic porn.

You people-of-the-cult don't appear to care now, while you are high on some Trump win vibe. It's all about feelings and bullcrap. When Trump was beaten badly by Old Sleepy Joe Biden back in 2020, you people-of-the-cult went into deep depressions and acted out violently, becoming nothing more than emotional Bots-4-Trump.

But 'll be soon seen trying to figure out how your pathetic lives got to be so much more pathetic than they became back in 2020/2021.

Spending cuts​

The resolution includes instructions to a handful of committees that add up to at least $1.5 trillion in cuts (over 10 years) to so-called mandatory spending, a part of the budget that doesn’t require Congress to write appropriations bills to fund programs. But a last-minute amendment, introduced to gain the support of spending hawks worried about the bill’s effects on the debt, requires at least $2 trillion in total spending cuts, or a reduction in the amount of tax cuts that are allowed.​

Energy and Commerce​

Cut by at least $880 billion​

Medicaid is likely to be the largest target for cuts to achieve the $880 billion in budget savings set out in the legislation.​

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Medicaid, which provides health insurance mostly to poor Americans in a partnership with states, is the country’s largest insurance program, covering around half of all births and two-thirds of all nursing home bills. If all the cuts were applied to the program, it would represent an 11 percent reduction in spending, on average, over a decade. But the committee also has the ability to include cuts to Medicare, and may also be able to find some savings by reversing Biden-era regulations.​

 

[Silent Warrior]

Let me know when you have something more relevant than your speculative panic porn.

Not gonna happen. Dante is a legend in his own mind.

 

[Concerned American]

You people-of-the-cult don't appear to care now, while you are high on some Trump win vibe. It's all about feelings and bullcrap. When Trump was beaten badly by Old Sleepy Joe Biden back in 2020, you people-of-the-cult went into deep depressions and acted out violently, becoming nothing more than emotional Bots-4-Trump.

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But 'll be soon seen trying to figure out how your pathetic lives got to be so much more pathetic than they became back in 2020/2021.

Spending cuts​

The resolution includes instructions to a handful of committees that add up to at least $1.5 trillion in cuts (over 10 years) to so-called mandatory spending, a part of the budget that doesn’t require Congress to write appropriations bills to fund programs. But a last-minute amendment, introduced to gain the support of spending hawks worried about the bill’s effects on the debt, requires at least $2 trillion in total spending cuts, or a reduction in the amount of tax cuts that are allowed.​

Energy and Commerce​

Cut by at least $880 billion​

Medicaid is likely to be the largest target for cuts to achieve the $880 billion in budget savings set out in the legislation.​

​

Medicaid, which provides health insurance mostly to poor Americans in a partnership with states, is the country’s largest insurance program, covering around half of all births and two-thirds of all nursing home bills. If all the cuts were applied to the program, it would represent an 11 percent reduction in spending, on average, over a decade. But the committee also has the ability to include cuts to Medicare, and may also be able to find some savings by reversing Biden-era regulations.​

Pretty words, now put a pretty link up to substantiate it or just STFU.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

The dems will not help the GOP pass the budget.

They own it. Let the Freedom Caucus make life miserable for the next year and a half.

 

[g5000]

Medicaid covers millions of Trump supporters.

Trump and the GOP are shooting themselves in the face.

 

[Dante]

Pretty words, now put a pretty link up to substantiate it or just STFU.

Uhm, all in the OP by moi, the OP

take a break today.

go get some fresh air -- while it lasts

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Trump does not need MAGA now that he has the billionaires club.

 

[Concerned American]

Trump does not need MAGA now that he has the billionaires club.

Are George Soros and Bill Gates Trump supporters now? I hadn't heard, donkey.

 

[MarcATL]

Yep, they always do the same things OP, but the consequences get worse.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Are George Soros and Bill Gates Trump supporters now? I hadn't heard, donkey.

Where their needs intersect, sure.

 

[Dante]

Trump does not need MAGA now that he has the billionaires club.

Now that the hype is bs and the honeymoon is over: Unlike the Good Old Pukes who rolled over for Trump in his first term and now act like Fools on a Hill, the Democrats are doing what they do best: Fighting for the average American against billionaire designed and funded policies, written and directed by the uber wealthy

Schumer battles Thune in Senate "vote-a-rama" all-nighter​

For Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), the overnight session on Thursday is about proving Democrats have a path — and the guts — to get out of the political wilderness.​

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Why it matters: Schumer sees the budget "vote-a-rama" as his shot to convince voters that President Trump's GOP serves billionaires, not the working-class people who make up the new MAGA coalition. Axios scooped Schumer's thinking earlier this week.​

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Democrats are expected to offer about 40 amendments as part of the debate over the Senate GOP's $300 billion budget reconciliation package.​

The amendments — which aren't expected to pass — are designed to pin Republicans between what's good for their reelections and what could infuriate Trump.​

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Schumer's two key targets are Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), who each face reelection in 2026.​

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As Schumer told Axios this week: "In 2026, these amendments are going to play a valuable role."​

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Zoom in: The festivities won't end until each side votes the other to exhaustion.​

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Amendments are unlimited and the median age of senators is 65, per Pew Research Center.​

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Among the potential amendments: Sens. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) plan to put GOP senators on the record on Trump's IVF promises, as Axios scooped tonight.​

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Do you people-of-the-cult ever seek medical attention for the side effects of spinning so much?



"How will they pay for it? That’s a question for another day. What about the huge tax cuts they and Mr. Trump have promised? We’ll figure that out later, senators say."

Coming from the master spinner dante.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

We need at least two functioning parties. I think the best function the Dems can perform is to make the GOP govern for real.

They want a massive one budget bill, then make the do it by themselves. They want a monstrosity, let them be their of Dr. Frankenstein. Pass it themselves.

It will be fun to watch the Freedom Caucus tear it all to shreds.

Then the Dems can offer logical, rational changes to the monstrosity.

I think that Speaker Johnson thinks that is how it is going to have to go.

 

[Silent Warrior]

Then the Dems can offer logical, rational changes

Something they have totally failed to do in the past.