President Trump on Wednesday approved House Republicans' proposal to move forward with one comprehensive policy and tax cut plan, and rejected the Senate's efforts to split the Senate Republicans' agenda into smaller pieces.
“Because I'm implementing my full American first agenda, everything, not just some of it, but everything,” Trump said on his website, Truth Social.
He continued: “We need both rooms to pass the House budget.”
The president's comments rarely end months of discussion at Capitol Hill about how he will unfold his sweeping legislative agenda, including strengthening border enforcement and scope of tax cuts. did.
Senate Republicans say they plan to continue their tactics of moving the border enforcement bill first, slashing Trump's agenda, and House Republicans hit by intense internal conflict have said they have He said he expressed skepticism that the difference could be adjusted. To produce the final product.
“He's been making clear for a long time that he likes one big, beautiful bill, and we're fine with that too,” said the South Dakota Senator, the majority leader, in the South Dakota post. He spoke later. “If the house can produce one big, beautiful bill, we're ready to work with them and lead it to the finish line. But I believe the president also likes options.”
Trump's announcement comes just hours after giving Congressional Republicans a contradictory direction on how they should go about cutting social safety net programs.
On Tuesday evening at Fox News, Trump asserted that there should be no cuts to Medicaid, healthcare programs for the poor in America, or other qualification programs.
“Social security cannot be touched except for this scam and what we find,” he said. “It will be strengthened, but it won't touch. Medicare, Medicaid, none of that kind of thing can be touched.”
But by the next morning, Trump was in support of the House Republican budget bill.
One thing has been revealed by obvious contradictions. The budget process is likely to become more and more cumbersome.
“There are a lot of people talking about financial responsibility and are cutting their spending forever. And they can't refer to what they're really comfortable with,” Congress deals with the country's $36 trillion debt. They argue that they need to be serious about doing it.
“Reducing spending and increasing taxes is not popular,” she said. “We don't have exercise or healthy diets. We're making some really myopia decisions in terms of continuing to increase our debt.”
Republicans are trying to make a tricky tightrope walk to extend Trump's $4 trillion tax cut. But they want to do so without increasing US debt. To fill the gap, you will need to find deep cuts elsewhere on your budget.
So far, House Republicans have been paying attention to a variety of Medicaid changes, including limiting how much the federal government pays to states.
Democrats have tried to focus public attention on the fact that the plan opens the door to cuts to Medicaid, the program's voting shows are widely popular.
“Mathematics isn't summed up, and the only way he can do it is to chase after Medicaid,” Sen. Peter Welch, a Vermont Democrat, said Wednesday. “That's a really scary agenda.”
House budget resolutions introduce a wide range of spending targets per committee, but do not name certain cuts. The plan directs the Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees Medicaid, to come up with a cut of at least $880 billion. The wish list distributed by the House Budget Committee included many options for restructuring Medicaid, covering 72 million poor and Americans with disabilities. Many of those proposals focus on various ways to make the state government pay more.
Trump was not a model of consistency. He takes a contradictory position on a wide range of issues, including abortion, Affordable Care Act, State and Local Tax Credits, and key provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Report Monitoring Act.
However, the question of whether to make changes to Medicaid to free up money for tax cuts is particularly thorny.
Speaker Mike Johnson approved the addition of work requirements to Medicaid and reducing waste, but he argued that his position was not inconsistent with the president's views. However, these moves can save only a small portion of the money you need.
“Medicaid has never been on the chopping block,” Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, said at a recent press conference: You can spend on the real priorities of the country. ”
He added: That's common sense. ”
