House Budget Bill Battle & NY’s Wildcat Strike | 2.26.25
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What is the main issue in the House budget battle?
The ayes are 217, the nays are 215. Majority voting in the affirmative. The concurrent resolution is adopted. The budget battle comes to a head on Capitol Hill with Trump ramping up pressure on House members.
What are the issues driving a wedge between lawmakers?
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House Speaker Mike Johnson has worked furiously to wrangle votes from Republicans to pass a crucial spending resolution that will help fund much of Donald Trump's domestic agenda.
Here to break down the budget battle in D.C. is Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips. Hey, Cabot, so a contentious few days on the Hill. Let's start with some details on what exactly is in this spending package.
Yeah, I know, John, a lot of people hear the words budget resolution and their eyes gloss over. It's certainly not the sexiest topic, but it is hugely consequential. For weeks now, Republicans have been putting together a massive spending resolution that will lay the framework for funding some of Trump's big ticket campaign promises. The heart of the plan contains three major focuses.
What are the key components of the new budget resolution?
First, it calls for four point five trillion dollars in tax cuts. including renewing President Trump's 2017 tax cuts and also paving the way to eliminate taxes on Social Security payments, tips, and overtime. Next, it includes a $300 billion increase in spending for defense and the southern border. Finally, in its current stage, the resolution calls for around $1.5 trillion in future cuts to the federal budget, though it's not yet clear exactly where those cuts would come from.
Right. Now, the big struggle here, of course, is within the GOP itself with its razor thin majority. Tell us about the fight to get this across the finish line.
Why is there internal conflict within the GOP over the budget?
Yeah, because Republicans hold such a small majority, they could only afford to lose a few votes to get this thing passed. That left Speaker Johnson scrambling to appease each wing of the GOP. The budget hawks want more cuts. The moderates support cuts, but want to protect Medicaid. The foreign policy hawks want cuts, just not for defense spending. You get the idea. Supporters of the resolution are basically saying, don't make perfect the enemy of good. This moves us in the right direction. I spoke with Brandon Arnold, executive director of the National Taxpayers Union. He's in that camp. Here's what he had to say.
In terms of what's achievable... in Congress and gets this process going of locking in Trump's tax cuts, most of which are going to expire at the end of the year. This is a fantastic approach to doing so because it not only marries that important concept of getting taxes done, it also begins to chip away at the federal bureaucracy, at the waste, fraud, and abuse within the federal government.
Now, coming into Tuesday morning, it looked like everyone in the GOP caucus was finally getting on board. But a handful of hardline conservative members put their foot down, saying the plan was a good starting point, but did not offer enough guaranteed cuts.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main issue in the House budget battle?
0:04–2:23
2
What are the key components of the new budget resolution?
2:23–3:00
3
Why is there internal conflict within the GOP over the budget?
3:00–5:11
4
How is the National Security Agency involved in DEI controversies?
5:11–6:30
5
What are the implications of DEI initiatives on federal agencies?
6:30–14:53
Speakers
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