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
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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
@StevetheSleeve Your “welfare” spending must include social security and Medicare.
I'm assuming you are new here and haven't had to read that very sad post I presented. To bring you up to speed with those who have an education: https://www.cato.org/commentary/there-right-social-security The original administrators of Social Security argued before the Supreme Court that it was a WELFARE program, financed by Congress's ability to tax. There is NO Social Security trust fund. There never was one. It basically is just most of America paying TAXES to give money to Social Security beneficiaries. It IS WELFARE. In fact, if the Social Security system were an actual private sector retirement program, it would be shut down by the federal government for bogus accounting practices.
(The idea of those original administrators arguing the case before the Supreme Court appeared in Ronald Reagan's historic speech "A Time For Choosing.)
Ask an educated person about government spending. It is in two tiers. One is Discretionary Spending, where the taxpayers get actual value for their tax dollars. (military, Congress, roads, court system, FBI, etc) That tier is about 30 percent of the federal budget.
The rest is lumped under Entitlements, which is basically transfer payments, from people who produce to people who do not produce. Those are the facts and facts don't care about your feelings.
Even Trump knows better than to mess with that
Apparently, you haven't been paying attention. There have been threads even at this forum about DOGE auditing Social Security and finding BILLIONS of dollars being sent out to recipients who are DEAD.
So a few things you have to ask yourself:
1. With Social Security taking up more of the budget than Defense, shouldn't there be an accounting of where those checks go?
2. If it has been PROVEN that they haven't gone to actual recipients, don't you think reasonable Americans should be PISSED OFF?
3. What kind of goose stepping far left fcking MORON would be upset to find Social Security checks have been sent to people who are dead?
A lot of questions you have to answer, assuming you have the study capabilities of the average Florida middle schooler. I work as a sub in two Florida counties, and so far those 6-8 brats are smarter than most liberals at this forum.
@DogMan Older people get sick. 85% of health spending is consumed by people in the final five years of their life, when they can't work. That is how a social insurance policy works.
@SunshineGirl O Older people get sick. 85% of health spending is consumed by people in the final five years of their life, when they can't work. That is how a social insurance policy works.
Let me count the ways that is full of shit.
1. Produce some PROOF. You suggested 85 percent of health spending is consumed by people in their final five years of life. PROVE IT with a factual link or admit you just made it up.
2. Social Insurance does two things: (a) It SKYROCKETS DEMAND which allows doctors and hospitals to price gouge. (b) It gives goose stepping DemoNazis the ability to control a population by controlling its health care.
@SunshineGirl ummm, ok, why are you telling me this? I know, it sucks to get old. Thats why I work out every day and eat right. I need to work till my 80's so I can help pay for those that can't work due to health problems.
Hopefully we can Make America Healthy Again. Would you be good with that?
@Reason10 I imagine that the 85% is pretty close. How are you doing with Medicare?
My wife and I just went on it last year, and we are paying more than we did through the company I own. And it has been a pain in the ass. Apparently, our income is such that we pay a premium, due to us both working and owning two businesses.
@DogMan Improving health is always welcome. But it doesn't change the facts of mortality or the unrven way in which people access health services at different stages of their lives.
@DogMan How am I doing with Medicare? Not much. I see a doctor twice a year so the prescriptions can be renewed. I have always stayed in shape. For most of my life I've been a health nut. I haven't retired because I do not want to retire. I want to work until I'm 95 years old. Maybe then I'll quit one of my two jobs.
@swirlie Yeah, wait till you are forced onto Medicare, you will know what I'm talking about. If you are still working and have an income close to mine, you will be paying far more for health coverage.
@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.
