By the narrowest of margins, Moses Mike was able to get all the fascists inline and vote for The Fascist Felon’s budget of choice. The win is key for the Republicans that can now use the a complicated legislative tool known as reconciliation. It’s a process that Republicans can use to avoid a filibuster from Democrats in the Senate, but in order to use it they had to first agree on a budget blueprint.
***In other words, they can ram this shit down our throats even though MAGAts’ own constituents DO NOT WANT IT. Voters thought The Fascist Felon was just ‘kidding‘ about his agenda, including these draconian cuts that will bigly affect his moronic base.
"We got it done," Johnson told reporters following the vote. "This is the first important step in opening up the reconciliation process. We have a lot of hard work ahead of us, but we are going to deliver the America First agenda."
The House plan calls for an increase in funding to secure the southern border, a boost for military spending and raising the nation’s debt limit by $4 trillion.
The plan also calls for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts over the next decade. Those cuts include renewing the 2017 Trump tax cuts, which are set to expire at the end of the year, as well as other proposals that the president campaigned on, like no taxes on tips, overtime or Social Security.
In order to appease the ‘fiscal conservatives’ in the House, Mose Mike had to make a few concessions, like for $2 trillion in spending cuts. Under the budget framework, the exact details of those cuts will be sorted out later, by individual committees in the House. (“We won’t know until we pass it!”)
The successful vote puts the ball back in the Senate’s court. Because Trump has endorsed the House budget plan, the Senate will be under pressure to take up and pass that blueprint, even though the upper chamber adopted its own version last week.
The budget measure calls for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and a goal of $2 trillion in spending cuts. It includes more than $100 billion in new spending on immigration enforcement and the military. It also requires the House Energy and Commerce Committee to find $880 billion in cuts to federal programs, and Republicans say some of that will come from reducing spending on Medicaid.
Democrats unified in opposition to the GOP budget plan, slamming it as a tax cut for the wealthy that will hurt working-class families by cutting Medicaid. They have coalesced around that political message intended to drive a wedge between Trump and swing voters, as well as his own voters who rely on federal benefits.
