There WILL be chages in the fill Spending Law…..
Americans do NOT like the thing as it stands Right Now in middle June 2025….
Will lawmakers in Washington ‘get the message’ and change things up?
Overall, 42 percent of Americans oppose the budget bill “changing tax, spending and Medicaid policies” that narrowly passed in May by the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, compared with 23 percent of Americans who support the bill, and 34 percent who say they have no opinion.
Support among Republicans is higher, with 49 percent who say they support the bill compared to 13 percent who oppose, and 38 percent who say they have no opinion. Democrats strongly oppose the bill, with about three-quarters of Democrats against it. Independents also oppose it 40 percent to 17 percent, while about 4 in 10 independents have no opinion on the bill….
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Since the House narrowly passed its version of the bill, Senate Republicans have scrambled to emphasize the bill’s economic benefits to voters and pass their version of it by Trump’s deadline of the Fourth of July. But most people are not very aware of the legislation, and among those who have heard about the bill, it’s unpopular. About two-thirds of the public says they have heard either little or nothing about the budget bill. Those who have heard a great deal or a good amount about it oppose it by a roughly 2-to-1 margin, 64 percent to 33 percent, with nearly half strongly in opposition….
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Nearly 7 in 10 Americans — including similar majorities of Democrats and Republicans — support raising taxes on individuals making $2.5 million or more, an idea Trump pitched in May but that House Republicans left out of the bill.
Republican leadership, including House Speaker Mike Johnson (Louisiana) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (South Dakota), all maintain that Trump’s sweeping legislation would reduce the national debt, but that budget math has yet to add up — as some fiscal hawks have pointed out.
According to analyses from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office — which the GOP has disputed and sought to frame as partisan and inaccurate — the bill is estimated to add $3 trillion to the national debt over the next 10 years. A 63 percent majority of the public says that increase is unacceptable, while just 13 percent say this is acceptable, and 24 percent are unsure. Many Republicans balk at the debt increase: 47 percent say a $3 trillion debt increase is unacceptable, while 25 say it’s acceptable.
Despite that narrow path to the bill’s passage in the upper chamber, Trump and Thune have repeatedly reiterated that “failure is not an option.”…
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