President Donald Trump came out Wednesday morning in support of the House GOP budget proposal.
The Senate and House Republicans are pursuing competing budget plans in the Senate later this week. Budget resolution This will allow $340 billion in new border security and defense spending, change federal energy policies, and allow for new oil and gas lease sales. Trump has largely stayed from debate over the process through Wednesday as both Chambers advanced the full steam with competing budget proposals. Both House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Tune. signal Another leader’s suggestion was that he died while arriving in each room. (Related: Exclusive: Doge asks NIH employees: So, what do you do around here?)
“The House and Senate are doing their epic job of working together as a unified, invincible team, unlike the Lindsey Graham version of the highly important law currently under discussion. Trump said on Wednesday morning. I wrote on the social morning of “both chambers need to pass House budgets to “kickstart” the settlement process and move all priorities to the concept of “one big beautiful bill” is. It will definitely make America great again! ”
.@RealdonaldTrump correct!
House Republicans work to provide the full agenda for President Trump. It’s not just a part of that.
let’s do it, @housegop! pic.twitter.com/hw32olal0z
– Speaker Mike Johnson (@speakerjohnson) February 19, 2025
The Senate vote In line with the party’s policy on Tuesday, it is now working on its own budget solution that looks like a non-starter, given Trump’s support for the House version. The Senate GOP budget bill omitted the 2017 Trump tax cuts and other extensions to other tax policies. The president floated during the campaign. Senate Republicans had planned to consider these tax priorities in a second budget adjustment package later this year.
House GOP leadership, on the contrary, supports a one-bill approach that combines all Trump’s tax and spending priorities into “one big beautiful bill.”
House Budget Committee Advanced a Budget resolution On February 13th, we will set up a single bill framework that combines the president’s tax and spending priorities. The budget solution sets a $4.5 trillion ceiling of a deficit increase and a $1.5 trillion reduction in spending over a decade-long window. The resolution will allow the statutory debt limit to be raised by $4 trillion.
Several House Republicans signal Their Opposition This could lead to significant Medicaid cuts in response to budgetary resolutions to concerns that a settlement bill would be triggered. Trump said on Fox News’ “Hannity” Tuesday that he would not support eligibility cuts, including Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, except in cases of waste, fraud and abuse.
Richard Stern, director of the Federal Budget Center’s Heritage Foundation, told the Daily Call News Foundation that the House settlement bill set by the first budget resolution is likely to be added to the deficit.
Housing budget resolutions could add up to $3.3 trillion in shortfall over a decade. According to To the non-partisan committee for the liability budget.
thun I was asked On Tuesday, whether the House budget resolution allowed enough rooms to accommodate all the president’s sweep tax priorities within the $4.5 trillion deficit window.
These tax priorities can add between $5 trillion and $11 trillion deficit If spending reductions or new tax revenue sources are not offset by more than 10 years, According to To the non-partisan committee for the liability budget.
Senate Republicans led by Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham argued that their two-stage budget settlement package was the right approach and cited immigration and customs enforcement. ask The Senate will promptly approve a new $175 billion border security fund.
“OMB Director Vought and Border Czar Homan told Senate Republicans that ICE is running out of money. We have to keep our feet on the gas,” Graham said. I wrote it X Tuesday. “We will build walls, expel illegal aliens, create additional detention spaces so that illegal immigrants do not need to be released into the community. And God has more military forces in these dangerous times. I know you need money.”
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