The hard-right lawmakers are insisting on steeper spending cuts to Medicaid and the Biden-era green energy tax breaks, among other changes, before they will give their support to President Donald Trump’s “beautiful” bill. They warn the tax cuts alone would pile onto the nation’s $36 trillion debt.
The failed vote, 16-21, stalls, for now, House Speaker Mike Johnson’s push to have the package approved next week. But the Budget Committee plans to reconvene Sunday to try again. Lawmakers vowed to negotiate into the weekend as Trump is returning to Washington from the Middle East.
“Something needs to change or you’re not going to get my support,” said Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas.
This raises the question: why would you want to invest in US companies? Republicans are presiding over a $36 trillion mountain of debt and now want to run further deficits to raise that mountain, after imposing tariffs on everybody in the weeks prior.
It feels like it’s only a matter of time until the USA’s debt bubble bursts and takes out a good chunk of the global economy with it.
BRICS are getting exactly what they wanted with Trump. This is how you destabilize the dollar and make the Chinese yuan the world’s reserve currency.
I’m betting on Trump attacking Moody’s to force them to put up a fake rating. “Raise it or else!”
Cutting taxes right now is like saying “We can’t pay our bills. I’m quitting my job.” How about raising taxes on the top 1% and capital gains on them too. Instead he shoves tariffs on us, essentially a federal sales tax.
That would affect everyone…
Everyone in the administration, negatively. Not gonna pass, ever, sadly.
I wonder if those hard-right lawmakers realize that even republican voters depend on medicaid.
It’s patriotic to die. /s
At this point it might just be.
Wut. Ofc they know it. They also know that their voters would never vote D either, no matter how bad things get for them.
both rand paul and mitch are the seantors of kentucky, no wonder.
WHO IN THE NAME OF UNCLE SAM PUT A FUCKING BUFFOON IN CHARGE OF A COUNTRY? I DEMAND HE BE THROWN OUT OF OFFICE! WHO CAN I CALL ABOUT THIS?
when you realize the supporters are even bigger buffoon than the one in the whitehouse, theres your answer.
The whole country played a part
1/3 said no,
1/3 said whats on tiktok
1/3 said spank me daddy, the libs need it
A lot of deluded voters
They know they’re walking a fine with their constituents. Passing this could potentially end up in absolute anarchy, with them hiding from their cult.
“Something needs to change or you’re not going to get my support,” said Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas
In b4 Chip Roy is demonized as an “activist rep” who is “subverting democracy”.
The US’ credit rating has already been dropped from triple A with the deficit being cited as a key reason.
The goal is to cut funding and services as fast as possible to accelerate the process of returning to feudalistic times. One where you and I fight over limited resources due to artificial scarcity while they live lavishly in their palaces.
Well you see if they burn everything else, then their part becomes much more valuable. It’s like taking half the pie and then shitting on the rest.
the deficit being cited as a key reason
You think the current efforts and changes will get that credit rating fixed?
Republicans certainly have no intention of meaningfully addressing the deficit and they never have. Their appetite to drive the deficit up to fund tax cuts for the rich has only grown since Reagan.
The fact that this was blocked is mildly surprising at best. It means very little when we know all they’re looking for is to cut funding for key public services even further.
It’s truly amazing that every time I read a headline that makes it sound like these people are doing something even remotely beneficial, additional context shows that they’re actually preparing for something even worse.
I read one a week ago or so that started with Matt Gaetz (I think, if not him someone like him) going to El Salvador to see their prisons, and I thought it was going to end with some line about him being appalled by the conditions. Turns out the visit was many months ago and after seeing it, it was his idea to deport people there.
“You meed to make things worse for people before we’ll vote for ir.”
“The tax cuts alone would pile on the nation’s $36 trillion debt”
…So we will destroy beneficial programs and do the tax cuts anyway.It reads as:
“I stabbed myself in the stomach with a huge knife, but I realize that was not quite a good thing to do so I will shoot off my own knees to make it hurt somewhere else”.Seeing headlines before reading the articles, I thought “could they be growing a conscience?”
Silly, silly me.
They fear for their lifestyles, and their very lives.
Right because if there’s one thing the rich need it’s more money. I hate fucking capitalism, I hate our government, and at this point I’m just tired of being alive.
So, they want to cut Medicaid, the US subsidy for healthcare for the poor, even harder then the mainstream of the party is willing to.
Democrats plot midterm comeback over GOP Medicaid cuts
https://apps.npr.org/2024-election-results/west-virginia.html?section=P
Trump won every county in West Virginia.
https://www.cookpolitical.com/vote-tracker/2024/electoral-college
He had the highest percentage share of the popular vote there aside from Wyoming, the other big coal state, with a 41.9 percentage point lead over Harris in the popular vote.
And we already had one term of Trump:
https://qz.com/1960354/trumps-promise-to-put-coal-miners-back-to-work-was-a-failure
In 2016, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump made a promise to coal miners at a rally in West Virginia. “For those miners, get ready because you’re going to be working your asses off,” he told them, wearing a white hard hat. “We’ll be winning, winning, winning.”
After four years of the Trump administration, coal has been losing, losing, losing. Not that Trump can take the blame (or the credit). Dismal economics have been inexorably displacing coal as the fuel of choice in the US and around the world. Trump made some attempts to stop the bleeding—easing air pollution laws and propping up ailing plants—and in 2017, falsely claimed those efforts were working. “We are putting the coal miners back to work, just as I promised,” he said.
https://wvmetronews.com/2025/05/01/medicaid-cuts-would-hit-wv-harder-than-most-states/
West Virginia is heavily dependent on Medicaid. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, 28 percent of the state’s population—about 500,000 individuals—are covered by Medicaid. That’s the fifth highest per capita rate in the nation.
“Not only did you not get your promised coal boom, but he took your healthcare away to boot.”
I’m betting they’ll blame anyone else but Trump here. They’ll say someone else is blocking his genius. Victims of scams frequently double down on the scam to protect themselves emotionally.
They blocked it because it wasn’t hard enough, they want it to be worse.
They’re afraid frog is starting to notice the water’s getting hotter, so they need to move faster
Same as every funding bill for the last 8+ years. Far right sides with the Democrats, for opposing reasons. Then we either get a far right bill with freedom caucus support, or we get the bill pulled up the left for moderate democrat support.
