Senate Advances Budget Resolution Amid GOP Divisions
Senate passes Trump's budget resolution aimed at tax cuts; House GOP faces internal dissent ahead of upcoming debates.
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House GOP leaders hope to pass the measure next week before the chamber departs for a scheduled two-week Easter recess, with an ambitious goal of passing the final legislation before Memorial Day.
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House GOP leaders have pointed out that passing a framework is just the first step in a long process, one that just lays out broad instructions for how money should be spent.
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Central to the Republican budget — and Trump’s domestic policy agenda — is the effort to preserve the tax breaks approved in 2017 during his first term.
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The Senate response was unserious and disappointing, creating $5.8 trillion in new costs and a mere $4 billion in enforceable cuts, less than one day’s worth of borrowing by the federal government.
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But the hard part is still to come.
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Washington’s Republican trifecta thus sees reconciliation as a key tool for delivering on Trump agenda items.
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There are already warning signs in the lower chamber, where House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) oversees a slim and ideologically diverse Republican conference, that the Senate blueprint could face hurdles.
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The framework's Senate approval lays the groundwork for a major tax and spending bill to implement Trump's policies, though this could run into trouble due to the concern of some House Republicans over U.S. debt levels.
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The size of the spending cuts carries particular weight to House conservatives given that Trump also hopes to use the package to raise the nation’s borrowing limit.
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The newfound focus on tariffs suggests Democrats want to seize on a politically perilous moment for Republicans as they anxiously give Trump space to place barriers on trade.
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Summary
The Senate narrowly approved a key budget resolution aimed at advancing President Trump’s agenda with a 51-48 vote. The plan proposes $7 trillion in tax breaks and extensive government cuts, facing dissent from Senators Rand Paul and Susan Collins. While the House GOP aims to align with the Senate's budget, divisions within their ranks about spending cuts threaten future progress. Senate Democrats are mobilizing opposition, framing the cuts as harmful to social safety nets. House leaders assert they will work on their reconciliation measure, planning for significant expenditure reductions ahead of the summer.
Perspectives
House GOP leaders, including Speaker Mike Johnson, express confidence that adopting the Senate's budget resolution will allow for significant progress on President Trump's agenda, emphasizing that the lower cut targets do not preclude achieving historic spending reductions later on.
Despite concerns from hardline conservatives about the Senate's budget's lower spending cuts, House leaders maintain that the resolution is a procedural step essential for moving towards a more detailed reconciliation bill.
The budget resolution, once adopted by the House, would initiate the process required to enact Trump's key legislative priorities, requiring collaboration among GOP members to ensure that upcoming proposals meet their fiscal hawk expectations.
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