Posted on 04/01/2025 2:35:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Senate Republicans are facing crunch time on a long-overdue budget resolution, which has divided their conference over the possibility of cutting Medicaid and adding language to increase the debt ceiling by as much as $5 trillion.
Whether they move on the bill this week could depend largely on a key ruling from Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has told colleagues that he wanted to get the budget to the floor this week, but that timeline is already slipping as GOP senators have yet to coalesce around the proposal, and it has yet to get the green light from the powerful parliamentarian.
Thune told reporters Monday that he’s not yet sure whether the budget will be ready to go this week, noting the discussions with the parliamentarian are “ongoing,” and he wants to make sure nearly his entire conference is “comfortable” with the plan.
“We want to get to it as quickly as we can, and I’m hoping that enables us to move on it this week,” Thune said.
But he cautioned that moving on the budget requires “having everything ready to go” and cited “the parliamentarian conversations” and “making sure we got everybody in a comfortable place with it.”
“It’s a process,” he said.
Some Senate Republicans, including Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), have made it clear they would not support big cuts to Medicaid that might threaten to reduce the program’s benefits.
Meanwhile, Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) have raised questions about using a special budgetary scoring model to claim that extending President Trump’s tax cuts won’t add to the deficit.
And Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has stated flatly that he won’t support adding language to raise the debt limit by up to $5 trillion unless...
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Big spender RINO thune
Republicans to vote against the house passed budget (by like two votes) and vote against tax cuts on social security, no tax on tips and making Trump tax cut permanent. They will
Once again somehow snatch defeat from the jaws of victory!’
The process of Reconciliation is strictly constrained to budget matters. This is how Obamacare got passed as every discussion of silver plan and bronze plan was slapped down but the Parliamentarian.
The same will be true in this upcoming legislation. It is very hard to get things passed if every Senator’s favorite program cannot be added and so his or her vote cannot be bought.
Tax cuts more than pay for themselves.
These idiots never ask if the American Rescue Plan, the so-called Green New Deal, or the Iraq war would add to the deficit.
If the parliamentarian can make or break a political agenda, its time for a new parliamentarian.
The problem the Senate parliamentarian faces is pulling Republican heads out of their keisters.
I trust the parliamentarian more than I trust Republicans.
Hawley is a tool of the Missouri medical pharmaceutical mafia. Pfizer, Cardinal, etc.
Hawley came from out of nowhere.
That's always an indicator that there are hidden forces at work.
Seems to me after Pres. Trump was elected by an overwhelming popular vote and Electoral College votes both the Republican and Democratic Parties are racing to see who can destroy his effort to “Make America Great Again”
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