Senator Eric Schmitt
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The Charlie Kirk Show · The Bill May Be Big and Beautiful, But Is It Passable? · 28 May 2025
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There's been a rapid fire process on the Senate floor at the end of the process called budget voterama, where any senator can bring up any amendment they want. We vote on them over and over and over again, often in rapid formation. And then whenever we're finished with it, we send it back to the House. And hopefully at that point, they're willing to pass it.
There's no way of telling exactly what it will look like, but as far as the first part of your question, what it takes to get me there, we just have to have a reasonable path to get back to pre-pandemic spending levels, somewhere at least in range. For fiscal year 2026, we ought to have a path to get to $6.5 trillion a year in total federal spending.
Now, if we can get there and then hold that for a couple or three years, we'll be getting to the place where we can balance. You can't do all of this through a reconciliation bill because it doesn't deal with every category of spending, but it does deal with a lot. And it deals with a lot of the spending that has resulted from increases just since the COVID pandemic.
That's where I'm looking to get. There are a million different formulations of how that can take place, but it's got to be part of a plan. If this fits into a plan that is serious, that can get us to balance within a few years, I can get there. And I know most or all of my colleagues can as well.
Well, I think we can get there on the Medicaid front. I've proposed legislation called the America First Act, some of which was incorporated into the House version, but they left a lot of our illegal alien population eligible to participate in Medicaid for reasons I don't understand, but there's still that. We could achieve additional savings there.
When we look at things like the so-called state Medicaid provider loophole, You've got states that are manipulating provisions of the Affordable Care Act, you know, Obamacare, in order to skim federal funds off the top of Medicaid, all in the name of Medicaid provider tax.
Congress needs to close that loophole because that's encouraging states to take more and more federal money, federal money that through the expanded Medicaid program is paid for nine to one by the U.S. government. We also need to look at the SALT deduction.
uh the income tax deduction that's just a huge taxpayer subsidy from all other americans over to blue state billionaires uh designed to bail out blue state governors uh this is um uh this is a problem i mean so rather than subsidizing 350 billion dollars for states with high tax rates and we ought to pass a big beautiful bill that fully terminates
The Green News scam gets rid of a lot of these – every one of these Green News scam subsidies where we're subsidizing non-baseload sources of power that are unreliable.
Okay, first of all, a lot of the Doge cuts, not all of them certainly, but a lot of them occur on what we call the discretionary side of spending. And discretionary spending isn't addressed through a reconciliation bill. So most of those would need to occur outside the reconciliation bill.
But some of them could be passed into law with only 51 votes in the Senate, especially through what's known as a rescissions package. Under the Budget Act, the White House, the president is allowed to propose to Congress that they rescind certain discretionary funds. And a lot of that is where the doge cuts would come through. They can send that over once the White House has sent it over.
They can be considered for an expedited up or down vote in both houses, including a simple majority vote in the Senate. So not everything through Doge could be done through reconciliation, but I think when most people talk about the Doge cuts, most Americans probably are not contemplating that distinction between discretionary and non-discretionary, but they do want to see aggressive action.
That's what they're calling for here.
I suspect it'll take place over the next four weeks. During the month of June, you're going to see aggressive action within the Senate. I think you'll see finished product coming out of the Senate, most likely by the end of June. And then what happens from there will be up to the House of Representatives. But I think it'll be that much closer to passing into law.
And I look forward to being part of that effort and look forward to getting this thing passed. Look, nobody, not one person wants to see these Tax Cuts and Jobs Act provisions lapse, resulting in this $4 trillion tax bomb exploding. And I intend to be part of the solution and get this thing done.
Yeah. So border security is a big deal. We've got to make sure that we have the tools to deal with that. We've had more illegal immigration than we've ever seen over the last four years. It's just been absolute uncontrolled chaos. which was sadly part of a design of the president's auto pen administration.
Um, we, we have also got, uh, uh, provisions making sure the tax cuts and jobs act, uh, um, tax cuts don't expire. Um, we've got no tax on tips. That's a very good, very popular provision. And, uh, we, we do bring about a lot of the reforms that I mentioned through, uh, provisions of my America first act were adopted by the house.
that get rid of a lot of the federal benefits from going to illegal aliens. And so those are all good things. We're going to build on those. We're going to make things better in the Senate. We'll get this thing passed.
Thank you.
Yeah, Charlie, first of all, are you tired of winning? I mean, my gosh, that clip that's going viral there with you, President Trump, a big win last night. And just congratulations to him as well as Speaker Mike Johnson. President Trump is the best closer in the country. So Mike Johnson gave us the best bill that he could get passed over there. Think of the Senate as like a saucer.
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