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I know my Senate colleagues are committed to, as is the president, permanence in the tax situation. And we don’t have [that] yet in the House bill, so we’re going to work together in a cooperative way.”
Wyoming Senator John Barrasso similarly told Politico Regardless of what happens moving forward in this budget process, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of House Republicans want to cut Medicaid, they want to gut Medicaid.”
Delaware Senator Sarah McBride, a Democrat, bluntly put it to The Independent before Tuesday’s vote There are going to be a lot of concerns over the Medicaid cuts,
Missouri Senator Josh Hawley told Politico Acquiescing to a $4 trillion increase in the debt ceiling is for me a non-starter … It basically acknowledges that this year the government’s going to be $2 trillion short.”
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul told Politico The voters will absolutely reject Republicans for failing to fulfill that promise, period.”
North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis told The Independent on Tuesday evening Rural hospitals are going to be some of the first in the chopping block with these cuts,
The rural communities of our country and of our state of Georgia are disproportionately recipients of Medicaid. We're seeing hospitals close,
Why did Republicans do it? So they could cut taxes for the billionaire’s club.”
So we're getting an update to all of our numbers, but I have shared with colleagues over here that our assessment of it is that the impact, once again, to Alaska, if we see the kinds of cuts that are being floated over on the House right now, could be devastating to Alaska,
Murkowski said, ... per CNN's Manu Raju After running on reducing the federal spending and the deficit, House Republicans have put forward a budget busting bill that will take healthcare away from millions of Americans and food away from hungry people—all so they can give massive tax breaks to their billionaire buddies."
Democratic Representative Val Hoyle of Oregon said in a news release @HouseGOP took the first step today toward delivering on our promise to the American people: to craft a fiscally responsible budget that reins in out-of-control spending and lowers costs for hardworking families."
Republican Representative Claudia Tenney of New York wrote on X Tuesday This momentum will grow as we work with our committee chairs and Senate Republicans to determine the best policies within their respective jurisdictions to meet budgetary targets,
Johnson said on Tuesday in a joint statement with other Republican House leaders If the Republican plan passes—under the rosiest assumptions which aren't even true—we're going to add 328 billion dollars to the deficit this year, we're going to add 295 billion dollars to the deficit the year after that, 242 billion dollars to the deficit after that, under the rosiest assumptions. Why would I vote for that?"
Republican Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky, the only member of his party to oppose the budget plan, told reporters before the vote If they want this passed, they'll need to stick with what we've got,
The tax cuts are not permanent; they don't use current policy [budget baseline]. It would be a major overhaul,
I prefer, obviously, always prefer to move bills, individual bills, or at least bundled, packaged. But, you know, we’re running out of time, and so we’ve got a short window to work with,
If Republicans don’t want to govern, they just need to give us a couple votes and we’ll put Hakeem Jeffries in the speaker chair,
Republicans do not have the votes to keep government open on our own. If the Democrats want to shut it down, they can,
I hope the House and Senate are able to agree on making the Tax Cuts PERMANENT!”
Ahead of the meeting, Trump wrote on social media We haven’t had a chance since the House passed their bill to sit down with our conference, which we will do soon, and talk about some of those decision points,
