GOP senators push ahead on Trump's tax cuts package and delay big decisions for later

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

GOP senators push ahead on Trump’s tax cuts package and delay big decisions for later

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING
Updated 10:39 AM EDT, April 2, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican senators are meeting Wednesday morning with President Donald Trump at the White House as they push ahead on his big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts while delaying some of the most difficult decisions, including the costs and how to pay for the multitrillion-dollar package.

The Senate GOP’s budget framework would be the companion to the House Republicans’ $4.5 trillion tax cuts package that also calls for cutting some $2 trillion from health care and other programs. If the Senate can move the blueprint forward, it would edge Trump’s allies on Capitol Hill closer to a compromise setting the stage for a final product in the coming weeks.

“Obviously we are hopeful this week we can get a budget resolution on the floor that will unlock the process,” said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D. “And so we are continuing to move forward with that.”

Thune and Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee are meeting with Trump before the expected public release of their budget blueprint by the committee chairman, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, as soon as the afternoon.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/senate-budget-trump-tax-cuts-0e1c1cf43e10b55ba8c1f3e20d16b153

[Grins]

1. Because, for Republicans, nothing transcends tax cuts!!

NOTHING!!!

They are the GOP’s Magic beans!!!!

[Zenlitened]

2. They want to put tax cuts for billionaires on YOUR credit card.

Billionaires party now, we pay later.

That’s the message to voters. Or ought to be.