This is more than the general republican wish to hurt poor people to help the wealthy. This is about the tRump tax cut give aways to the very wealthy in the US costing the add of 8 trillion to the national debt. The republicans wrote the bill so the minor cuts to the lower income’s taxes sunset with in a couple years, but the wealthy people got to keep theirs for ten years. Now they are due to sunset and the government will receive a huge influx of revenue again to pay the bills of running a country, paying for the world’s largest bloated military, and to help the poorest people in the country survive with some dignity. But tRump and the republicans are determined to make those cuts permanent and never ending while constantly pushing for more cuts to their taxes. Their goal is to push the entire cost of running the government on to those least able to pay for it, the lower incomes while the upper incomes pay little to nothing. Then using the complaints of the people that their taxes are too high they will cut social services and the social safety nets for the poorest among us including the elderly and disabled. Plus they will stop funding road repairs and other infrastructure projects and when people complain will privatize the roads, selling sections to companies who will be able to charge tolls of any amount they wish to make profit off the public needing to get somewhere. How we stop them I don’t know. Idiots worried about the price of eggs bought every lie tRump made about how he was going to magically bring all the prices down to 2020 levels … when the stores were empty and we had no toilet paper. Now he admits that he can not and will not be lowering prices, and the cult is not getting upset about being lied to by the leader of their cult. Hugs
lawmakers estimating Trump’s domestic policy agenda — including tax cuts and border security proposals — costing as much as $10 trillion over the coming decade.
House Republicans are passing around a “menu” of more than $5 trillion in cuts they could use to bankroll President-elect Donald Trump’s top priorities this year, including tax cuts and border security.
The early list of potential spending offsets obtained by POLITICO includes changes to Medicare and ending Biden administration climate programs, along with slashing welfare and “reimagining” the Affordable Care Act.
Five people familiar with the document said those provisions are options to finance Republicans’ massive party-line reconciliation bill or other spending reform efforts, including those being spearheaded by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency.
The people, granted anonymity to discuss closed-door negotiations, said that the list originated from the House Budget Committee, chaired by Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Texas). Republicans involved in the reconciliation plans have been generally targeting the listed programs for several months, but internal GOP fights over trillions of dollars in potential cuts are just beginning.
The overall savings add up to as much as $5.7 trillion over 10 years, though the list is highly ambitious and unlikely to all become law given narrow margins for Republicans in the House and Senate.
Cuts to Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act and the country’s largest anti-hunger program would spark massive opposition from Democrats and would also face some GOP resistance. House Speaker Mike Johnson can’t afford any Republican defections if he wants to pass a package on party lines.
Even proposed cuts to green energy tax credits, worth as much as $500 billion, could be tricky — as the document notes, they depend “on political viability.” Already 18 House Republicans — 14 of whom won reelection in November — warned Johnson against prematurely repealing some of the IRA’s energy tax credits, which are funding multiple manufacturing projects in GOP districts.
A House GOP source said that the “document is not intended to serve as a proposal, but instead as a menu of potential spending reductions for members to consider.”
Johnson and GOP leaders are hunting for trillions of dollars in cuts, with lawmakers estimating Trump’s domestic policy agenda — including tax cuts and border security proposals — costing as much as $10 trillion over the coming decade.
Johnson, with scores of House Republicans this week to chart the way forward, and groups of GOP members are set to meet with Trump in Florida this weekend.
In addition to Medicaid and ACA cuts, the document floats clawing back bipartisan infrastructure and Inflation Reduction Act funding.
One senior GOP lawmaker, asked if there were any particularly controversial spending offsets dividing Republicans, replied: “They all feel pretty controversial.”
Johnson agreed to make $2.5 trillion in spending cuts through the budget reconciliation process as part of last year’s government funding negotiations. Asked in a brief interview Wednesday evening if he was targeting $5 trillion in spending offsets, he replied, “Not sure yet.”
The policy menu suggests Republicans could capture major savings from Medicaid — up to an estimated $2.3 trillion. The list includes so-called per-capita caps on Medicaid for states, meaning the program would be paid for based on population instead of being an open-ended entitlement, and would institute work requirements in the program.
The list also includes a policy to equalize payments in Medicaid for able-bodied adults with those of traditional Medicaid enrollment — those with disabilities or low-income children, which would save up to $690 billion.
It would “recapture” $46 billion in savings from Affordable Care Act health insurance plan subsidies, which are set to expire at the end of the year, setting up a major policy battle. It would also limit eligibility for plans based on citizenship status.
Also on the chopping block are President Joe Biden’s climate policies, which are estimated to yield as much as $468 billion. That includes Trump’s repeated promise to repeal Biden’s “EV mandate,” as well as discontinuing “Green New Deal” provisions from the bipartisan infrastructure law and green energy grants from the IRA.
The green energy cuts could be particularly tricky from a political perspective. GOP lawmakers have long backed some technologies supported under the climate law, including supporting hydrogen, biofuels and carbon capture.
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Just one point to illustrate the folly the GOP is embarking on.
Considering the entire area of the USA, the size of it population and the general First World consumption, (particularly cars and haulage) I would have thought that a long term strategy of keeping the road and bridge networks working at maximum efficiency would be rather obvious, right up there with maintaining your armed forces.
Whereas some dream that private ventures are the answer to all problems, when it comes to public services you only depend on them to care more about their dividends to shareholders and bonuses to directors than service to the public.
The UK is continuing to learn this lesson after the disasters of privatising the rail network and water industries.
And horse and cart culture is a nice nostalgic idea but does not fit the needs of a 22nd century nation.
No sense of long term strategy at all in the GOP, ironically like times when the idealistic left of the UK Labour party take hold…dreams unsustainable dreams…turning to nightmares.
Hi Roger. Well said. But the republicans and the wealthy care nothing about killing the very things that make them wealthy. They seem to feel they can force more and more of the cost of everything including the maintaining / fixing the infrastructure on to the lower incomes least able to pay for it. All so they can make more of the money they can’t spend but only used to compete with each other for title of the one with the most. It is useless at that amount other than owning entire governments, being lords of unimaginable power that their wealthy gives them. They really stop seeing the rest of us as human like them, as the same species. Hugs
Well Scottie since these folk seem to place so much in their ideas of the ‘Christian Message’ I have one for them:
Gospel According to Luke Chap 12 verses 16-21, as told by Jesus.
16 And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest.
17 He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’
18 “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. 19 And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’
20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’
21 “This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”
Hi Roger. Your question … are they going to argue with Jesus? I think some of these very wealthy people feel they are on par or more important / valuable than the very lord itself. They feel that their wealth elevates them to that status. Hugs
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Just one point to illustrate the folly the GOP is embarking on.
Considering the entire area of the USA, the size of it population and the general First World consumption, (particularly cars and haulage) I would have thought that a long term strategy of keeping the road and bridge networks working at maximum efficiency would be rather obvious, right up there with maintaining your armed forces.
Whereas some dream that private ventures are the answer to all problems, when it comes to public services you only depend on them to care more about their dividends to shareholders and bonuses to directors than service to the public.
The UK is continuing to learn this lesson after the disasters of privatising the rail network and water industries.
And horse and cart culture is a nice nostalgic idea but does not fit the needs of a 22nd century nation.
No sense of long term strategy at all in the GOP, ironically like times when the idealistic left of the UK Labour party take hold…dreams unsustainable dreams…turning to nightmares.
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Hi Roger. Well said. But the republicans and the wealthy care nothing about killing the very things that make them wealthy. They seem to feel they can force more and more of the cost of everything including the maintaining / fixing the infrastructure on to the lower incomes least able to pay for it. All so they can make more of the money they can’t spend but only used to compete with each other for title of the one with the most. It is useless at that amount other than owning entire governments, being lords of unimaginable power that their wealthy gives them. They really stop seeing the rest of us as human like them, as the same species. Hugs
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Well Scottie since these folk seem to place so much in their ideas of the ‘Christian Message’ I have one for them:
Gospel According to Luke Chap 12 verses 16-21, as told by Jesus.
16 And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest.
17 He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’
18 “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. 19 And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’
20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’
21 “This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”
They going to argue with Jesus? Huh?
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Hi Roger. Your question … are they going to argue with Jesus? I think some of these very wealthy people feel they are on par or more important / valuable than the very lord itself. They feel that their wealth elevates them to that status. Hugs
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If they do think they are so elevated
One word Scottie…..
HA!!!!
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