Jay Kuo: The Budget Blueprint Is No 'Big, Beautiful Bill'

[Nevilledog]

https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-gop-budget-resolution

You’ve probably heard the news. On Tuesday evening, the House GOP narrowly passed a budget resolution by a vote of 217 to 215, with only one GOP member (Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), a deficit hawk) voting with the Democrats.

Based on worried reader comments and the crowing of GOP members busily spreading misinformation, you’d think the budget had been sealed, along with the fate of programs like Medicaid, and delivered to Trump for his signature.

Not so.

The resolution that passed is just a blueprint. That is to say, it gives instructions on how to move forward with the full budget, including instructions to House committees to find cuts that fit within the blueprint.

It also has to line up with a companion bill from the Senate that does the same basic things.

That means we are still a very long way from the enactment of tax cuts for the uber-wealthy and draconian cuts to government health services in places like Medicaid. And that means we have time to mobilize and see the budget go down to defeat, just like we have seen every other GOP budget bill fail over the past two years.

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[dweller]

1. First

There will have to be a continuing resolution (CR) to keep the Gov from shutting down mid March

Good luck with that



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[Wiz Imp]

3. That will indeed be interesting. No way a full budget gets passed before then so a CR is the only option.

Either that or a shutdown. But I know Jared Moskowitz has been repeating for a month now how the Republicans can't logically vote for a CR because they've been praising all the "DOGE Savings" and a CR would just add them right back in. Really clever strategy by Moskowitz. So the question is will the Republicans pass a CR themselves? Will any Democrats help them pass a CR? The Democrats definitely have leverage so they can try to extract something big in exchange for helping pass a CR. I think an awful lot of Dems have already stated they would have no problem shutting down the government if the alternative is agreeing to Republican priorities. We'll see what happens.

[Wiz Imp]

2. Thank you for this!

Hopefully a lot of people will read this and better understand the process. I wanted to post something like this but couldn't figure out how to explain it clearly and concisely like this does.