House budget chair blasts Senate resolution as 'unserious and disappointing'
Source: The Hill
04/05/25 11:05 AM ET
House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) on Saturday blasted the Senate’s budget resolution, passed by the upper chamber only hours before, as “unserious and disappointing.” Arrington criticized the budget plan for “creating $5.8 trillion in new costs and a mere $4 billion in enforceable cuts” or “less than one day’s worth of borrowing by the federal government.”
The Texas lawmaker also took a shot at Senate Budget Committee Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) plan to score the cost of extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts as not adding future federal deficits, something Graham would achieve by judging an extension of those cuts on a “current policy” baseline.
He said the blueprint “sets a dangerous precedent by direct scoring tax policy without including enforceable offsets.” “We are at a fiscal inflection point and failure to rein in our runaway deficit spending and unsustainable debt could prove catastrophic for our economy, security and global leadership,” Arrington added in his statement.
The House GOP chair’s shot-across-the-bow response to the passage of the Senate budget marks the start of a difficult negotiation on a budget reconciliation package that would enact President Trump’s legislative agenda. Senate Republicans passed their budget resolution shortly after 2:30 a.m. Saturday by a 51-48 vote.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5234031-jodey-arrington-senate-budget-resolution-donald-trump-agenda/
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