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Raven123

(6,564 posts) Wed Apr 2, 2025, 06:42 AM Apr 2

Senate Republicans set to bypass parliamentarian on Trump Tax Cuts

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Source: The Hill

Republicans are set to make the audacious play of bypassing the Senate parliamentarian and moving forward with a budget resolution based on a scoring baseline set by Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) that would allow them to argue extending President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts won’t add to the deficit.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5226747-republicans-tax-cuts-deficit-senate-parliamentarian/

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Senate Republicans set to bypass parliamentarian on Trump Tax Cuts (Original Post) Raven123 Apr 2 OP

Breaking the rules by Repug Congress is just following their Leader Trump who breaks rules daily!! riversedge Apr 2 #1

Phony math won't make the numbers meet. C_U_L8R Apr 2 #2

Locking as a duplicate Yonnie3 Apr 2 #3

*extending the Trump tax cuts past 2025 would add an estimated $4.6 trillion to the deficit over the 10yr budget riversedge Apr 2 #4

riversedge

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1. Breaking the rules by Repug Congress is just following their Leader Trump who breaks rules daily!!

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Wed Apr 2, 2025, 07:38 AM

Apr 2

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C_U_L8R

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2. Phony math won't make the numbers meet.

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Wed Apr 2, 2025, 07:42 AM

Apr 2

Debt is debt, no matter how they fudge the numbers. Wall Street won't buy it. Journalists won't buy it. Trading partners won't buy it. Consumers won't buy it. Business won't buy it. They're only fooling themselves by sucking up to their criminal king.

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Yonnie3

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3. Locking as a duplicate

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Wed Apr 2, 2025, 07:49 AM

Apr 2

please continue discussion at the earlier post https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143431324

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riversedge

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4. *extending the Trump tax cuts past 2025 would add an estimated $4.6 trillion to the deficit over the 10yr budget

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Wed Apr 2, 2025, 07:49 AM

Apr 2

Senate Republicans set to bypass parliamentarian on Trump tax cuts 😡
*extending the Trump tax cuts past 2025 would add an estimated $4.6 trillion to the deficit over the 10yr budget window & trillions of dollars more to the deficit beyond that window

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