House Passes G.O.P. Budget Teeing Up Enormous Tax and Spending Cuts
House Passes G.O.P. Budget Teeing Up Enormous Tax and Spending Cuts
The vote cleared the way to enact major elements of President Trump’s domestic agenda and escalated a bitter fight among Republicans over what federal programs to shrink to finance major tax cuts.
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And they're planning on passing it in the Senate with Budget Reconciliation so the Filibuster won't stop it.
I hate our government. We are not a democracy but a republican run country were democrats get to play house, sometimes.
Time to filibuster into a shutdown, things are about to reach the near bottom for the USA.
“But that would be mean!” - Chuck Schumer, probably
Fun Fact, the House actually passed this bill 217 to 215 with only a single Republican voting against, meaning if every Dem had also been present and voted against it still would have passed by the bare minimum number of votes. This also opens up the possibility of Republicans bypassing filibuster with reconciliation.
They're trying to do something called budget reconciliation (I'm not sure exactly what that is) to avoid getting filibustered.
Cuts to Medicare and 3 trillion to the national debt to boot. So fiscal. So responsibility.
"Look what the Democrats did!" - Republicans
Just want to say thanks for the pay paywall bypass
While cranking up the cost of imports for consumers