Conservatives block Trump's Big Tax Breaks Bill in a Stunning Setback

Friday, May 16, 2025

In a setback, House Republicans failed Friday to push their big package of tax breaks ...

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This week at CBPP, we focused on the impacts of the House Republican reconciliation plan. www.cbpp.org/blog/in-case ...

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... insisting on steeper spending cuts to Medicaid ...

Billionaires trying to fund their tax cuts by denying health care to the working poor.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-16 03:10 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"In their quest for deeper reductions, the conservatives are particularly eyeing Medicaid, the health care program for some 70 million Americans. They want new work requirements for aid recipients to start immediately, rather than on Jan. 1, 2029, as the package proposes.

Democrats emphasized that millions of people would lose their health coverage and food stamps assistance if the bill passes while the wealthiest Americans would reap enormous tax cuts. They also said it would increase future deficits.

"That is bad economics. It is unconscionable," said Rep. Brendan Boyle, the top Democratic lawmaker on the panel."

NOT Enough Pain! say the rwingers. The Oligarchs need to FEEL the suffering of the People!

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-16 03:13 PM | Reply

rather than on Jan. 1, 2029, as the package proposes.

It's amazing how many poison pills are being packed into this bill. It seems like every policy I see discussed/analyzed has some sort of provision for expiration right when a new administration would take over.

#3 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-16 04:15 PM | Reply

@#3 ... some sort of provision for expiration right when a new administration would take over ...

Looking at it a little differently ...

The bills seem to have provisions to boost the economy leading up to the 2028 election, and expiring just after that.

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-16 04:17 PM | Reply

Just how corrupt has the GOP become? I mean it took something so monstrously ridiculous as this new spending bill to FINALLY get a couple of them to grow a conscience and get off their butts to vote against. Unbelievable. Now lets wait and watch to see what Unconstitutional maneuvers the MAGAs will not attempt in order to unlawfully bypass Congress and pay off all those oligarchs just like they promised.

#5 | Posted by moder8 at 2025-05-16 05:12 PM | Reply

Those GOP ghouls that voted against it did so because it wasn't horrid enough

#6 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-05-16 05:14 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Hamburglar: That is true. They were squaring off against Blue State Republican reps who knew their careers were doomed if they went as far as the extremist right is demanding.

#7 | Posted by moder8 at 2025-05-16 05:25 PM | Reply

Hahaha it was fiscal conservatives who said No Way Jose.

You can't make this Stuff up.

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-16 10:09 PM | Reply

8647!

#9 | Posted by moder8 at 2025-05-16 11:37 PM | Reply

8647 is a prime number therefore it's our prime objective to get rid of Trump. The legal way.

#10 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-05-16 11:41 PM | Reply

@#6 ... Those GOP ghouls that voted against it did so because it wasn't horrid enough ...

That seems to be a rather concise, and apropos, summary.

#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-17 12:17 AM | Reply

@#6 ... Those GOP ghouls that voted against it did so because it wasn't horrid enough ...

exactly but you can work for CNN and the other despicable dem rump rubbing media prostitutes..

like this from CNN....."Trump's egg price fiction has suddenly become reality "

--their position is that we can save more money..what a horrible thought....BWAAAAAAAAAAA..you all sound
like old cat ladies waiting on their depends to be delivered.

#12 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-05-17 01:06 PM | Reply

... insisting on steeper spending cuts to Medicaid ...
Billionaires trying to fund their tax cuts by denying health care to the working poor.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter

That's what is so amazing.

It's not because they are cutting Medicaid.

They voted against because it doesn't cut Medicaid ENOUGH.

#13 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-05-17 07:02 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

That's what is so amazing.
It's not because they are cutting Medicaid.
They voted against because it doesn't cut Medicaid ENOUGH.

Posted by Sycophant at 2025-05-17 07:02 PM | Reply

This has me very worried. If that happens I will be living in my car. Damn them

#14 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-05-17 07:04 PM | Reply

As the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities notes, rural areas in particular depend on Medicaid spending. Nearly half of all children in rural areas, 47 percent, receive health insurance through Medicaid. Rural hospitals, which have struggled to stay afloat in the face of broad and overlapping challenges, also rely on Medicaid to stay open and provide needed services to isolated areas.

House Republicans also want to slash the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to reduce so-called waste, fraud and abuse. (In truth, SNAP is among the most efficient federal assistance programs in operation.) Again, these cuts " which will effectively pay for tax benefits for people with higher incomes " will most likely hit children and other vulnerable populations hardest. And as with the proposed Medicaid cuts, this will hit hard for rural areas, where roughly one in seven households receives SNAP benefits.

#15 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-05-18 06:36 PM | Reply

@#13 ... It's not because they are cutting Medicaid.

They voted against because it doesn't cut Medicaid ENOUGH. ...

Exactly.

#16 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-18 06:44 PM | Reply

@#15 ... As the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities notes, rural areas in particular depend on Medicaid spending. Nearly half of all children in rural areas, 47 percent, receive health insurance through Medicaid. Rural hospitals, which have struggled to stay afloat in the face of broad and overlapping challenges, also rely on Medicaid to stay open and provide needed services to isolated areas. ...

Why does MAGA so often seem to want to hurt its supporters?

Could it possibly be that MAGA is really about MABA? (Making Billionaires Great Again?)

#17 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-18 06:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

We need to pump up the top tax rate back to the 80+% range to pay for all these decades of cuts.

#18 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2025-05-18 08:47 PM | Reply

@#17 ... Why does MAGA so often seem to want to hurt its supporters? ...

Anyone?

#19 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-18 09:46 PM | Reply

17 ... Why does MAGA so often seem to want to hurt its supporters? ...
Anyone?
Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-18 09:46 PM | Reply

Because America first is just me first no matter who I hurt. That's why.

#20 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-05-18 09:59 PM | Reply