Senate Republicans want NO part of the House Budget Bill and Possible Govt. Shutdown….

Hmmmmm?

Neither do the House Democrats want the Republican version of the 2025 Budget….

 

This IS gonna get interesting….

The US House IS catering to their Repuyblicans Right Wing Nuts AND Donbald Trump….

The Senate Republicans , like the Democreats,  have been sitting on their hands as Trump muscle’s his way on reluctant Republican lawmakers in the House…

Media reporrs that several House member’s where against the Trump’BIG WONDERFUL’ Bill that is NOT Balanced in any way or shape ended up having them fold like a piece of paper…

Senate old timers are saying they want NO part of the House/Trump thing….

Majority leader Thune, a McConnell prodigy , HAS a BIG job coming at him…..

And the possibity of a Government Shutdown dropped in. his lap…

Senate Republican committee chairs delivered a blunt message to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) last week that they want the Senate to assert itself and not let the White House and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) dictate to them.

They said the Senate should stand firm, not just on the budget bill that will be used to move President Trump’s agenda, but also on preventing a shutdown and not accepting a year-long government funding resolution that would trigger cuts to defense spending.

“It’s the desire of the Senate to legislate,” said one Senate Republican source who said Thune and the GOP committee chairs discussed their desire to make major changes to the House-passed budget plan, which would not make the Trump tax cuts permanent, as well as to avoid a year-long continuing resolution.

“The conversation on reconciliation was that the Senate still has a role to play here and we can’t be dominated,” the source added. “As much as anything, it’s frustration” over how the House budget was crafted.

The source said about half a dozen chairs expressed their desire for the Senate to rewrite the Senate budget and not allow the House GOP leaders to claim that only their product has a realistic chance of passing the narrowly divided lower chamber.

The committee leaders also voiced their frustrations over the growing momentum behind a long-term continuing resolution that would not allow lawmakers to substantially adjust discretionary spending priorities for the rest of fiscal 2025….

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….there’s growing frustration with the new momentum behind a House-passed budget plan that would lump border security, energy, defense and tax reform into one massive reconciliation package and pay for much of it with up to $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid and other mandatory spending programs.

Trump has consistently endorsed the House plan of trying to pass all of his agenda — an extension of the expiring tax cuts included — in what he called “one big beautiful bill,” even though GOP senators have repeatedly tried to persuade him to embrace Thune’s less risky two-bill approach

Thune flexed his political muscle last month when he brought a Senate Republican-drafted budget resolution focused on border security, energy and defense to the Senate floor, passing it quickly after a marathon session of votes that lasted until nearly 5 o’clock in the early morning….

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Thune sought to set the direction of the budget fight at a Senate GOP retreat at the Library of Congress, where he unveiled a plan to break up Trump’s agenda into two separate budget reconciliation packages, hoping it would allow Republicans to ring up early victories on border security, energy policy and defense spending.

Instead, Johnson has insisted on combining those issues with the time-consuming tax policy debate, which gives him more leverage over his slim House majority, where rebellious conservatives are threatening to hold up the tax bill.

Several Republican committee leaders said last week there are major problems with the House-passed budget, such as its failure to use a “current policy” baseline to score the budgetary impact of extending the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which expires at the end of this year….

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Democrats….

Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.) on Sunday called a budget resolution that was recently adopted by House Republicans a “screw America bill.”

“It’s the screw America bill, and let me tell you why,” Horsford said on “The Hill Sunday” with NewsNation’s Chris Stirewalt….

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“Let me tell you why,” the Nevada Democrat added. “They are cutting $2 trillion on the backs of everyday Americans, seniors, those who are disabled, women, pregnant women, newborn children, to do what? To give tax breaks to the very wealthy, to big corporations, to tech tycoons. And they’re very clear and deliberate about how they’re going about it.”…

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“You’re talking about $880 billion of cuts to Medicaid. And I get it, like $880 billion, like, what does that mean, right? That’s a huge number. Nobody understands. Let me tell you what that means. That means that sick kids die in this country. That means that hospitals in depressed communities, in rural communities, close their doors,” Murphy said in the video….

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