Trump budget bill extending first-term tax cuts survives House vote
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.
That's a hell of a hoot. DemoNazis worried about the national deficit when THEIR WELFARE SPENDING IS 70 PERCENT OF THE FEDERAL BUDGET.
As written, the House bill also provided $4.5 trillion to extend President Donald Trump's 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act provisions, which expire at the end of this year.
An amendment negotiated by House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, and conservatives on his panel would also force lawmakers to make $2 trillion in cuts, or else risk the $4.5 trillion for Trump's tax cuts getting reduced by the difference.
So if you work a job, this bill keeps Washington from RAISING YOUR TAXES.
Those of you with a job will see the up side of this.
Those of you liberal Democrats who are ALL on WELFARE and don't work for a living, won't see any change whatsoever. As far as the vast majority of America
Let's be honest about the "Washington raising your taxes" bit.
That's actually the endgame of tRump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. That bill cut the rates of the richest few percent permanently, but only cut rates temporarily for the bottom majority of taxpayers. As tRump's law sunsets, rates go up for the bottom majority of taxpayers.
Just being honest about the reason for the tax increases on the horizon.
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@Theyitis he's a RINO, but he's definitely concerned about the deficit. He votes in favor of every pork filled spending bill to ensure the national debt is fatter than JB Pritzker.
Your “welfare” spending must include social security and Medicare. Even Trump knows better than to mess with that. And if he tries, republicans in congress will suddenly grow a backbone
@swirlie We were told costs would go down once we went on Medicare, but they went up because we are both still working fulltime. I think it is due to how much we make.
The more you make, the more you pay to cover people that don't work, or don't pay into the system.
All the democrats voted against the bill, included in it, was no tax on tips, they just don’t want Trump to look good, it didn’t work though, did, why would anyone, ever, vote for the evil democrats
This shows that the majority Trump holds is very thin. Get as much pushed through in 2 years as possible. Expose as much corruption as possible so people quit voting for thieves.
@Reason10 The orange traitor is spending $10,000,000 tax money a month playing golf. At that rate he will have blown $480,000,000 tax dollars in 4 years.
@jshm2 Please share the documents proving that Trump will raise taxes on the bottom 96% of Americans. I will not hold my breath. I am in that top 4% and my taxes keep going up.
