From the Project 2025 Playbook that candidate Trump claimed he knew nothing about, The Fascist Guy, his transition team, economic advisors, and Congressional GQPers have engaged in preliminary talks to go after Medicaid, food stamps, and other federal safety net programs. to offset the cost for tax cuts to those that need them the least. Options to shake up these programs that support at least 70 million people include spending caps for the programs and work requirements.
“I don’t think that passing just an extension of tax cuts that shows on paper an increase in the deficit [is] going to be challenging,” said one GOP tax adviser. “But the other side of the coin is, you start to add things to reduce the deficit, and that gets politically more challenging.”
Although most Republicans, if not all, support tax cuts to those that need them the least, many have expressed concerns about the lack of revenue that will occur. So, what else is on the chopping block or will get jacked up?
- Many Republicans will consider repurposing clean energy funds approved by Democrats.
- The Fascist Guy’s tariff plans could also raise additional revenue. But those ideas may prove unworkable or insufficient to fully account for the cost of a sweeping new tax package.
The Fascist Guy’s previous tax plan will expire at the end of 2025 and Republicans want to extend it or make them permanent. TFG also campaigned on new tax cuts, such as ending taxes on tips and overtime. However, that would add more than $4 trillion to the already soaring national debt over the next decade, according to congressional bookkeepers. Currently, the debt exceeds $36 trillion.
Genius GQPer, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas), offered these words of wisdom without informing people that many Medicaid recipients are children and the disabled.
House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) told reporters Wednesday that a “responsible and reasonable work requirement” for Medicaid benefits resembling the one that already exists for food stamps could yield about $100 billion in savings. He also said another $160 billion in reduced costs could come from checking Medicaid eligibility more than once per year.
“I feel like there are some common-sense, reasonable things that almost 90 percent of the American people would say, ‘That’s got to change,’” Arrington said.
One GOP tax adviser said lawmakers were looking at broadening work requirements for SNAP eligibility, another nugget the conservative Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 playbook recommends. But, on the campaign trail, The Fascist Guy claimed he knew nothing about Project 2025.
