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In the dead of night, GOP House passed massive cuts to Medicaid and Food Stamps out of committee [1]

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Date: 2025-02-14

In the dead of night, House Republicans just passed out of budget committee a radical budget that will make close to a trillion dollars of social spending cuts to Medicaid and Food Stamps and other social programs.

On Thursday night around 10 pm EST, The House Budget Committee voted along a party lines 21-16 vote, a budget resolution that still needs to be marked up into actual program cuts by individual House committees. This is just a framework for budget cuts.

For instance, the Energy and Commerce Committee has to reduce the deficit by at least $880 billion over ten years. Well, the Energy and Commerce Committee overs the Medicaid budget, so that’s $880 cut the Medicaid and other federal programs that fall under that committees responsibilities.

On the other side of the coin, there are tax cuts of $4.5 trillion that Donald Trump demanded, again over ten years.

Plus, the budget resolution would raise the federal debt limit by $4 trillion dollars immediately so that Donald Trump could afford his tax cuts.

Remember this is Republican math. Republicans claim they are the fiscally responsible party, then why do they have to raise the federal debt limit by $4 trillion. Its only to pay for their massive tax cuts back to the days of George W. Bush, 2017 Trump tax cuts and not the 2025 Trump tax cuts.

I created a game that I put online last year to show the only way to balance the federal budget and not touch Social Security and Medicare was to roll back the GW Bush tax cuts and the 2017 Trump tax cuts. Plus move Social Security and Medicare into their own untouchable lock boxes. Here's a link to the easy-to-use model — You just adjust the tax revenue slider and expenditure sliders to try to balance the budget. Link to model. See if you can balance the budget. federalbudgetbalancer.com

From The Hill: House panel advances budget resolution after marathon meeting The House Budget Committee advanced a budget resolution after a marathon meeting on Thursday, clearing the first hurdle in the GOP conference’s effort to pass President Trump’s legislative agenda. The panel approved the budget resolution in a party-line 21-16 vote, sending it to the full chamber for consideration. It remains unclear when Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) plans to bring the measure to the floor. The House is out of session next week and is set to return to Washington on Feb. 24. The resolution outlines a $1.5 trillion floor for spending cuts across committees with a target of $2 trillion, a $4.5 trillion cap on the deficit impact of the Republicans’ plan to extend Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, and $300 billion in additional spending for the border and defense. It also increases the debt limit by $4 trillion. Link to The Hill Story: thehill.com/...

From Roll Call: GOP budget framework gets over initial hurdle in House Critical piece of Trump legislative agenda approved in committee, but tough floor vote awaits The 21-16 vote paves the way for the House to take up the resolution on the floor. Adopting the same budget resolution in both chambers is the necessary first step to writing a reconciliation bill, which includes submissions from various authorizing committees. If they meet the deficit targets laid out in the resolution’s instructions, the reconciliation bill is afforded procedural protections in the Senate, including the ability to pass with a simple majority. The resolution instructs committees to come up with at least $1.5 trillion in spending cuts — which has already given some moderates pause. “Let’s be clear. This plan is a Republican betrayal of the middle class. It does not support hardworking Americans, it undermines them,” Ranking member Brendan F. Boyle, D-Pa., said. Democrats said it would result in even deeper cuts to safety-net programs to fund bigger tax cuts for the rich. “This amendment takes a very bad bill … and it makes it significantly worse,” Boyle said. Link to Roll Call story: rollcall.com/...

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