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Key GOP holdout on Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ calls for deeper cuts to Medicaid, ‘Green New Deal’ spending (only 5.67 years left)
NY Post ^ | 5/17/25 | Josh Christenson

Posted on 05/17/2025 4:19:21 PM PDT by Libloather

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Can DOGE show up here?
1 posted on 05/17/2025 4:19:21 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Not much of a fan of Chip Roy, but if he’s asking Deadbeats to start working NOW, rather than having a free ride for another 4 years and if he’s wanting to get rid of the crap in Biden’s Green New Deal, then I have to admit, he’s doing his job!


2 posted on 05/17/2025 4:22:39 PM PDT by BobL
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To: BobL

Same here.


3 posted on 05/17/2025 4:23:24 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: Libloather

Where are the Spending Cuts?
What was the Purpose of DOGE, if the GOP House and Senate won’t enact
the found cuts?


4 posted on 05/17/2025 4:31:57 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRobr 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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Cutting the green scam stuff seems like it would be easy enough for other republicans to go along with.


5 posted on 05/17/2025 4:32:09 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: BobL

I disagree. He has never fought he 36 trillion debt much before. He voted for CRs and omnibus bills.

Why fight now in the majority? He wants to be Veruca Salt now?

It’s called dealing. 4 years isn’t that long and it takes time, unfortunatel, to implement the changes.


6 posted on 05/17/2025 4:32:21 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Libloather

Where’s the social security tax waiver?


7 posted on 05/17/2025 4:37:25 PM PDT by bwest
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To: Fledermaus

All that said ,what’s the deal with work requirements kicking in in 2029? Sounds like good old fashioned wonky dc crap to me


8 posted on 05/17/2025 4:39:00 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Fledermaus

They are all guilty, every last one of them....The budget could be balanced today, but these clowns refuse to do it. What must be asked is “what is stopping them?”


9 posted on 05/17/2025 4:42:28 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: BobL

Never thought I’d see it.


10 posted on 05/17/2025 4:47:55 PM PDT by Ronald77
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To: bwest
Good question.

They are quietly avoiding answering that. I have seen a few Republicans on TV (on FOX Business) get asked that question, and they completely and pathetically avoid answering it (in a typical politician way).

Sad.

11 posted on 05/17/2025 4:48:35 PM PDT by volare737 (Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated.)
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To: Libloather

If Republicans mess with Medicaid, then Republicans will lose Congress permanently.


12 posted on 05/17/2025 4:54:55 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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To: Libloather

No medicaid cuts to U.S. citizens. Cutting medicaid even to “deadbeats” would be a political loser. We don’t cut benefits to ordinary Americans. It just gives the democrats a talking point. Cutting green new deal would be good if possible. Sorry right now we need to win and taking away benefits from Americans won’t help towards that goal. Besides, how much will be saved by cutting off all payments to illegals? I imagine a helluva lot.


13 posted on 05/17/2025 4:57:03 PM PDT by McCarthysGhost
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To: BobL

I agree.


14 posted on 05/17/2025 5:03:06 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)
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He’s right..why wait til 2029 for what purpose..for some commie to come in and change the rules I dont think so..if they are going to include it in the bill make it effective IMMEDIATELY


15 posted on 05/17/2025 5:07:04 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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The concept of gradualism can no longer apply.

The debt size and compound interest erases any chance for “doing it a little at a time”. What little you do gets eaten by $1.1T interest.

It must be huge cuts. It must be massive upheaval. Tiny inconveniences mathematically fail.


16 posted on 05/17/2025 5:14:09 PM PDT by Owen
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To: Libloather

Chipper Roy like to see himself in the news......that’s all he’s ever been good for. “Look at me....I’m a fiscal hawk gosh darn it..and I’m special too”..


17 posted on 05/17/2025 5:19:29 PM PDT by Runner4life
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To: Libloather

Hopefully DOGE is represented in the budget numbers but who knows? Are all the DOGE cuts fully analyzed and ready for prime time?

The hardliners are right in that we have a $5T debt adder over the next two years and something serious needs to be done.

But the pubs have to work as a team. First things first — extend the tax cuts - permanently.

Unfortunately I don’t think the real big cuts needed are going to get into this bill.


18 posted on 05/17/2025 5:21:03 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: McCarthysGhost

Any unnecessary benefit must be cut, period. If needed, POTUS Trump has a few live chats during Prime Time to let the American people know the truth of what caused the mess and what it will take to clean it up.

However, in order to really sell it, politicians who have used government for gain must be prosecuted and sentenced to prison for a very long time, especially the judges.


19 posted on 05/17/2025 5:23:52 PM PDT by Racketeer
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To: Fledermaus

So Chip Roy decides to make a stand when Trump is president? If so, he is a dirtbag.


20 posted on 05/17/2025 5:24:21 PM PDT by boycott
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