Largely all gobbledygook.
All that matters is what is in the budget. Graham put $48B in his proposal. Don’t recall how much was added to the debt ceiling.
Maybe most important was Rand Paul noted it has no spending cuts. It increases spending by $300+B, and I guess that is derived from the increase in the ceiling.
The House has its own bill. I have heard of no amount of money in the House resolution for Ukraine. As in 0.
You *could* coalesce around some number like $5B — to cover pensions and SNAP equivalents. This is pure politics. “We did not cut them off!”
But in an overall perspective, I do not think there are enough GOP votes in both houses to combine with Dem votes to override a Trump veto. And he knows what the desperate US numbers are re interest on the national debt.
This numerical reality (of we can’t afford it) is what points at $5B. I do not think the GOP House folks will risk 2026 votes by overriding a veto, and Trump doesn’t care at all about re-election.