The hard-right lawmakers are insisting on steeper spending cuts to Medicaid and the Biden-era green energy tax breaks, among other changes, before they will give their support to President Donald Trump’s “beautiful” bill. They warn the tax cuts alone would pile onto the nation’s $36 trillion debt.
The failed vote, 16-21, stalls, for now, House Speaker Mike Johnson’s push to have the package approved next week. But the Budget Committee plans to reconvene Sunday to try again. Lawmakers vowed to negotiate into the weekend as Trump is returning to Washington from the Middle East.
“Something needs to change or you’re not going to get my support,” said Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas.
We don’t want the nation to go into debt to pay for our team cuts. We want the poor to go into debt.
Exactly. Anyone “stunned” by this isn’t paying attention.
The real test will be if the Dems have the integrity to filibuster whatever sick shit ends up getting to the Senate.
Well basically they are saying it’s better for the poor to be sick and die, and to destroy the environment, than for the rich to pay their fair taxes, although they are already lower than for average people.