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Chapter 1: Why did MAGA Mike Johnson face humiliation from his own party?
Speaker of the House of Representatives, MAGA Mike Johnson, just got humiliated by his own party on the floor in the House of Representatives. MAGA Mike Johnson was promising Donald Trump that he'd be able to deliver the passage of the Senate budget blueprint, which was recently passed, that the House would adopt that.
Then they would go further into the reconciliation process to ultimately pass this horrific budget that would gut $880 billion in Medicaid, $400 billion in education, close to the same amount in agriculture, and then also completely revoke the authority of Congress to assert its lawful authority over tariffs and allow Donald Trump to basically do whatever he wants.
So MAGA Mike put this Senate budget blueprint for a vote in the House of Representatives. Now, for those who know the procedures in the House, you don't do that if you think you're going to lose. It's an embarrassing thing for a speaker to be kind of stood up by their own party. That's precisely what happened yesterday. Maga Mike was waiting in the house floor for like 80 minutes.
First, it was 30 minutes, 60 minutes, then 80 minutes. And then it was clear that MAGA Mike was not going to have the votes from his own party in order to pass the Senate blueprint.
Now, this follows Donald Trump the night before on Tuesday night speaking before all the MAGA Republican Congress members at the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner and Donald Trump basically threatening them all, you better vote for this or else. They did not line up and actually vote for it yet. Now, that could change today, but you take a look right here.
Hallie Talbot, who does a great job covering this stuff, has the following spreadsheet about how the budget vote that MAGA Mike promised he would get done was punted over this extra day. There's about 20-ish members, MAGA Republicans, who aren't voting for this.
The House is supposed to leave for a two-week recess today, but MAGA Mike Johnson says, I'm going to keep you over the weekend right now if you don't vote for this. Take a look at this spreadsheet that she prepared right here.
Now, if you listen to what the MAGA Republicans are saying, they're saying that the Senate budget blueprint only has about $4 billion in cuts, whereas the MAGA Republicans say that their House blueprint, calls for $1.5 trillion in cuts. There's also kind of a dispute over this wonky-ish language over the Trump tax cuts and putting forward these Trump tax cuts for the billionaires.
and how that's going to be calculated in order to pretend that it's not going to add at least $4 trillion to the deficit. So you have all of this infighting taking place. But there was Maga Mike waiting 80 minutes. The process blew up yesterday. And now... He's got to kind of wrangle everybody together. Is Donald Trump going to call and start threatening all the MAGA Republican Congress members?
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Chapter 2: What are the controversial elements of the Senate budget blueprint?
How are you going to vote today if this comes to the floor? Well, I haven't even whipped, so I'm not going to tell you. Okay, so what is your concern about the Senate's plan right now? What is your concern about the Senate's plan right now?
Their plan is unserious, I think is the bottom line. And if you were to look at the Senate plan, What we see is they're proposing $4 billion, and it cuts over 10 years. We've got a $2.25 trillion a year structural deficit that needs to be addressed, and they're not really addressing it.
But given that, how could you possibly get to yes?
Well... I continue to talk, I continue to work, see what we can find out. Thanks for your time.
Here's a bunch of other MAGA Republican Congress members saying that they're not going to vote for this blueprint, like Ralph Norman and Chip Roy and Thomas Massey and others. Here, play this clip.
This budget, are you a hard no on it?
I've got to see the proof. It's all about math. We've got a arithmetic problem. $4 billion versus... to treat is a little bit of difference. That's what we're trying to do. So you think the Senate's plan just does not add up?
Why didn't they put it in there? Give us some assurances. There's a lot of mistrust in that process right now, so we're trying to work through that right now with a bunch of members. I am a no on this bill as it stands.
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