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The House Budget Committee advanced a budget resolution after a marathon meeting on Thursday, clearing the first hurdle in the GOP conference’s effort to pass President Trump’s legislative agenda.
The panel approved the budget resolution in a party-line 21-16 vote, sending it to the full chamber for consideration. It remains unclear when Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) plans to bring the measure to the floor. The House is out of session next week and is set to return to Washington on Feb. 24.
The resolution outlines a $1.5 trillion floor for spending cuts across committees with a target of $2 trillion, a $4.5 trillion cap on the deficit impact of the Republicans’ plan to extend Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, and $300 billion in additional spending for the border and defense. It also increases the debt limit by $4 trillion.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5144525-house-budget-resolution-trump-agenda/
Business as usual. They haven’t learned a damn thing.
House Republicans Strike Deal To Cut $1.5 Trillion From Budget, Paving Way for Trump’s Legislative Agenda
Days after Democrats threatened to shut down the government in response to Elon Musk and DOGE shutting down the government – planning to deprive House Speaker Mike Johnson of a few Democrat votes to override GOP hardliner holdouts to avoid an upcoming government shutdown, the joke’s on them.
On Thursday, hard-line conservatives and House Republican leadership reached a last-minute agreement on the party’s budget resolution, smoothing the path for the measure to advance out of committee and setting the stage for a broader push on former President Donald J. Trump’s legislative priorities.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-republicans-strike-deal-cut-15-trillion-budget-paving-way-trumps-legislative-agenda