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Ep. 2146 - MORE WINNING: House GOP Passes BIG, BEAUTIFUL Budget!
Wed, 26 Feb 2025
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Chapter 1: How did the House GOP pass the new budget?
Well, President Trump's winning streak continues. It doesn't just continue because of President Trump. It actually is continuing because Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is doing an extraordinary job in the House where he has an unbelievably slim margin. His margin in the House is somewhere between one and three votes, depending on who actually shows up for the vote.
And yet somehow last night he was capable of pushing through this gigantic House budget bill. Now, there are all sorts of problems with these gigantic bills. The biggest problem, of course, is that no one in power ever has any interest in serious cuts to the things that matter in American government. Instead, they sort of shuttle those cuts off down the road. They make commitments to commit.
All of that has just been a regular feature of American government from Republicans and Democrats for as long as I've been alive, which is why the line in terms of national debt keeps going up and to the right. However. What this budget bill does is it enshrines the Trump tax cuts of 2017. It provides additional funding to defense, which is necessary.
It provides additional funding to the border, which is necessary. And it pledges to actually take a look at cuts that will offset some of the loss of tax revenue theoretically to be achieved by the Trump tax cuts. And last night, there was all sorts of consternation about whether House Republicans would be able to get it together.
Originally, it seemed as though there were some House Republicans who were going to object to the House budget bill and who are not going to get on board with it because they believe that it didn't cut enough. A lot of these were fiscal conservatives. And again, I agree with them on principle.
I also understand that the only way a bill gets done here where you have Republicans in purple districts and where you have such a slim margin. is with bigger spending than you would want. This was Mike Johnson's entire proposal as Speaker of the House.
The reason that he pursued one big, beautiful bill is because he figured that if you separated all of these issues out, what you would get is a bunch of bills that would never pass because you'd have too many purists on too many issues who would be able to sink the boat. So instead, wrap it up in one big ball, make people vote up or make people vote down. That was the strategy here.
And if you don't like it, then maybe more Republicans should have been elected to Congress. It turns out that if you have a very slim majority, the bill that comes out is likely to be more quote-unquote moderate in its approach than if you had a much larger majority where you could lose a few moderates in the vote and still maintain a majority. According to Politico,
House Republicans approved a budget framework for President Trump's sweeping domestic policy agenda on Tuesday, a major victory for Speaker Johnson, who worked with Trump and fellow leaders in a chaotic last-ditch effort to win over naysayers within the Republican ranks. And Republicans, again, were very split on this.
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Chapter 2: What are the key features of the budget bill?
Over the course of the next 10 years, America is going to lurch toward precisely the same sorts of austerity measures that Europe had to put in place because the United States is lurching toward a national bankruptcy. We are. That's just what it is. There are only two things you can do about that. One, you can push outsized growth. You can try to outgrow the debt.
You can essentially grow the economy so fast that as a percentage of GDP, the national debt shrinks. I think that is one aim of Republicans. Or theoretically, you can radically increase taxes, which is going to sink the American economy and probably won't solve the national debt. You can't really tax your way out of a $37 trillion national debt right now.
It's going to get much larger over coming years. Or you could restructure the entitlements. All this government spending, not great, because, you know, it all cuts against freedom. And this country was actually founded on freedom. Freedom from a country that forced us to buy their overpriced tea and then tried blockading us when we dumped their tea into the ocean.
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