Republicans are about to make everything a whole lot worse [View all]

House Speaker Mike Johnson is set to put a Senate-passed tax cut bill up for a vote on Wednesday that would put Republicans one step closer to slashing taxes for the rich while at the same time cutting critical benefits like Medicaid and food stamps.

The Senate passed their budget version in the wee hours of Saturday morning, which would explode the deficit by $5.8 trillion over the next decade in order to extend President Donald Trump's 2017 tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit the wealthiest taxpayers.

While the Senate budget does not call for the more than $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid or $230 billion in cuts to food stamps, House Republican leadership is urging Republicans to pass the Senate bill so they can move to the next step of the budget reconciliation process—in which Republicans will have to put actual pen to paper to say what cuts they will make, rather than just provide topline numbers.

House Republican leaders are trying to sell the Senate budget to angry rank-and-file House GOP lawmakers by saying they will still be able to make the massive cuts to Medicaid and food stamps—despite what the Senate budget calls for.

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