In particular:

  • Republicans indicate in the budget blueprint that they plan to use an accounting method to score the cost of permanently extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts at $0, after it was estimated to cost $4.6 trillion in a letter Thursday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation.
  • The plan allows for an additional $1.5 trillion in tax cuts on top of that
  • The budget plan also paves the way for $175 billion in new funding for immigration enforcement to carry out mass deportation
  • $150 billion increase to military spending (a ~18% increase)
  • @Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world
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    2619 days ago

    Republicans: “Trump’s tariffs are a tax on American consumers and are a bad idea that I am against.”

    Also Republicans: passes Trump’s budget

  • PeripheralGhost
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    819 days ago

    Just read another article that says they’re considering cutting 90,000 soldiers from the Army.

  • @BigMacHole@lemm.ee
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    219 days ago

    This has to be FAKE NEWS because REPUBLICANS told Me Trump’s Agenda would HURT Us and I KNOW Republicans CARE about the Working Class and would NEVER EVER Lie to Us!