Posted on 05/15/2025 5:35:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
GOP senators have raised concerns about the deficit impact of the emerging package, as well as the cuts to Medicaid and clean energy funding.
WASHINGTON — As House Republicans scramble to corral the votes to pass a massive bill for President Donald Trump's agenda, their Senate counterparts are making clear the emerging package won’t fly as written when it reaches them.
Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., was categorical that the product coming out of various House committees cannot pass the Senate as it currently stands.
“No. We’ll make changes,” Hoeven said. “We’ve been talking with the House and there’s a lot of things we agree on. … But there’ll be changes in a number of areas.”
It wouldn’t surprise House members to learn that their Senate colleagues want to put their own fingerprints on the final multitrillion-dollar package. But Republican senators have already begun to identify a variety of provisions in the House measure that they’re targeting for revisions — from Medicaid concerns to clean energy funding to spectrum policy and overall red ink.
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., came out against the emerging House legislation this week, saying it will explode the U.S. budget deficit.
“I don’t see any scenario where it’s going to be deficit-neutral. That’s my problem,” he told NBC News. “By my calculation, this is going to increase the deficit by $4 trillion.”
“The amount that they’re looking to reduce spending is about 1.3%. It’s a rounding error. It’s completely inadequate,” Johnson said as he insists federal spending be at least lowered to pre-pandemic levels.
Republicans have 53 senators, meaning they can only lose three votes before the bill collapses int he chamber, as they have no hope of winning Democrats. They’ve already lost Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who wants steeper cuts. And Democrats are dialing up the...
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The GOP is worse than useless.
NBC = BS
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REPEAL THE 17TH AMENDMENT!........................
NO.
End the subsidies for wind & solar generation.
If we did not have the 17th amendment, do you really think that the process of selecting Senators by the State Legislature wont be corrupted?
So typical of rabid tds affected goper's.
Why is it that my FIRST thought with these Quisling RINOS is always:
‘I’m BLOVIATING for my Donors! ME First, AMERICA Last.’ *SPIT*
It would make it more difficult, but yeah, they would find a way.................
Certain Senate Republicans love siding with, and voting alongside the RATS.
Raising the SALT deduction limit should be tied to Medicaid reform so Republicans in high-tax Blue states will support Medicaid reform.
Apparently, corruption was a problem. Which was why they came up with the 17th Amendment.
The debt ceiling shall be raised
1. by $1 trillion dollars upon enactment into law;
2. by $500 billion upon enactment of FY2026 budgets prior to Oct 1, 2025 for [list of departments];
3. by $500 billion upon enactment of FY2026 budgets prior to Oct 1, 2025 for [list of departments];
4. insomuch as the pre-Oct 1, 2025 FY2026 budgets for [list of agencies] is less than the budgets for those agencies in FY2024 effective January 1, 2026 and again effective June 1, 2026;
5. insomuch as the FY2026 spending for [list of agencies] is less than the budgets for those agencies in FY2024 effective January 1, 2027 and again effective June 1, 2027;
6. by $500 billion upon enactment of FY2027 budgets prior to Oct 1, 2026 for [list of departments];
7. by $500 billion upon enactment of FY2027 budgets prior to Oct 1, 2026 for [list of departments];
8. insomuch as the pre-Oct 1, 2026 FY2027 budgets for [list of agencies] is less than the budgets for those agencies in FY2024 effective January 1, 2027 and again effective June 1, 2027;
9. insomuch as the FY2027 spending for [list of agencies] is less than the budgets for those agencies in FY2024 effective January 1, 2028 and again effective June 1, 2028;
10. by $10,000 for each alien not lawfully present in the USA on January 21, 2025 who is removed under judicial order or voluntarily departs under ICE supervision within 300 hours of authorized executive department request, but by no more than $1 trillion; and
11. the debt ceiling shall be decreased by $15,000 for each alien found in the USA after removal for which a debt ceiling increase was made.
1. Can it be any more corrupt than a body of super legislators accountable to no one?
2. The States need their house of Congress to be a check on Federal lunacy.
Well, that is the Senates job. Get it passed guys !
And get those cuts done !
Too funny. The body never saw a Biden era budget bill that didn’t sail right thru.
So it will go to conference. This is WHAT should have been happening with each budget bill instead of continuing resolutions.
This shows how inept the House is right now when Senate is actually trying to pull them further to the right on fiscal issues. It’s always been the opposite.
I could not be less impressed with Johnson and House leadership. They put forth a weak, left leaning bill and have continuously watered it down further and further. The House should be where they push for hard reform and then let the Senate moderate it to a passible bill.
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