Oh wait…it did…
The House of Representatives has adopted a resolution that will eventually become a massive multi-trillion-dollar bill full of President Donald Trump’s priorities on the border, defense, energy and taxes.
In a major victory for House GOP leaders, the resolution passed in a 217 to 215 vote.
All Democrats voted against the measure, along with lone Republican rebel Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who was concerned about its effect on the national deficit.
The next step is now for the relevant House committees to meet and build their own proposals, which will eventually be returned into the framework and negotiated into a compromise deal with the Senate.
Full article, HERE from Fox News. And HERE from CNN.
Sooo, this went from it’ll never pass, too much (insert things here), too little (insert things here), depending on which side of the issue you were on…
To a ‘last minute’ victory for Mike Johnson and President Trump. At least the Dems were predictable, voting in lockstep as usual, against anything Trump is trying to do.
In other news, AP lost the first round in court, MSNBC is shedding anchors as their ratings continue to be the bottom of the barrel, and Comcast is looking at spinning them off from NBC. If they do, I ‘think’ they will cease to be within a year.
The left continues to be unable to mount a coherent response to anything Trump is doing, because he and the administration are so far inside their OODA loop that they simply cannot keep up with all the things hitting, much less trying to defend the various things DOGE seems to be uncovering daily!
And it does give ‘some’ of us hope that maybe, finally, there will be a shift back toward the center. Hell, we’d be happy with that!!!
There are a lot of tax cuts in the package and that concerns me. I like the idea that the Spouse and I won’t be paying income tax on our Social Security, but if that money went to paying down the debt, it would mean less taxes in the future and less chance of government default. We’ll see how it shakes out in the end.
Mike- Agreed, but for those of us on fixed incomes, it helps as prices rise faster than our COLA.
Happy with some of the items in the budget, although I wish the overall total was smaller. A year from now, the numbers should look better after some of the issues found by DOGE are evaluated and resolved (or on their way to being resolved). For the first time in a long while, I’m hopeful.
Agreed, but remember, this isn’t the final budget, this just sets a framework for the maximums for spending and tax cuts. The final numbers can be lower after the committees do their work – and any info DOGE provides can be inputs to the committees. Not that I am holding my breath.
It’s a start…..
I’m somewhat skeptical of the final result, but also wishful.
Meanwhile, here in FL committees in the house HB 39) and the senate (SB 218) have identical bills proposing to raise the personal property tax exemption for “ex-servicemembers” from $5K to $10K. The one in the house is further along than the senate one.
Won’t amount to much if passed, but I’ll take crumbs.
It took many years to get into this mess, and it will not be fixed overnight – or even in a single term. But finally, steps are being taken in the right direction. I am hopeful – the same sense of turnaround that I felt when Reagan took over from Carter (spit). Yes, there will be some missteps, and pain. Things could have been fixed years ago with precise, surgical cuts. Didn’t happen. Now it’s time for the amputation saw and cauterization.
I’m cautiously optimistic. Gremlins and shit ALWAYS gets through.
Maybe Musk will get MSNBC for cheap and turn it into MXNBC. THAT will twist up some undies!