Congress approves agreement to implement Trump's legislative agenda

[PA Democrat]

Republicans in Congress approved an agreement Thursday to begin implementing President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda on taxes and immigration — a deal that could add trillions of dollars to the national debt.

The House in a 216 to 214 vote adopted a budget that allows Congress’s GOP majorities to use the reconciliation process, which permits conservatives to bypass a Democratic Senate filibuster so long as the two chambers work in lockstep drafting the policies.

Major portions of Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act expire at the end of the year, and Republicans aim to pair renewing them — at a cost of $5.5 trillion — with new business tax breaks and major new spending to power the White House’s mass deportation campaign.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) signaled an agreement shortly before the vote to cut at least $1.5 trillion in spending. But the chambers remain sharply divided over how to arrive at that figure — and if it will truly reduce the federal deficit, as House hard-liners have demanded.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/09/reconciliation-budget-trump-congress/

So they would add TRILLIONS to the national debt by extending Trump tax cuts and adding additional tax cuts for businesses while cutting $1.5 trillion in spending. I can't see how they get to those levels of cuts without gutting Medicaid and going after entitlements.

[C_U_L8R]

1. Don't they see the disaster he's making?

Do they hate money or something? WTF?