May 29, 2025
Trump’s not-so-secret weapon
By Frank Friday
Pres. Trump will be getting his big, beautiful bill. It won’t be right away, but it shouldn’t be much past Labor Day.
There’s a lot of handwringing and confusion over this bill by would-be deficit hawks, Elon Musk included. But I don’t think most of them have the foggiest idea what’s really happening.
As Stephen Miller pointed out, Budget Reconciliation only allows changes to mandatory program spending like Medicaid. It isn’t an appropriations bill. What Republicans are trying to do with this measure is cut some taxes and peel back the huge enrollments in Medicaid the Biden people engineered the last few years. He further points out that CBO projections of big spending increases are dishonest, as they come from simply extending current tax rates and assuming the current levels of appropriation increases, even though appropriations bills are not in this legislation.
One thing he didn’t mention in the bill, but will be the deciding factor, is the debt-ceiling extension provision. You may remember earlier this year Chuck Schumer broke ranks and helped Republicans pass a debt ceiling increase. This current one will expire sometime between August and September. And it will have to pass, but now they only need 50 votes in the Senate this time because of reconciliation.
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