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Well, President Trump's winning streak continues. It doesn't just continue because of President Trump. It actually is continuing because Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is doing an extraordinary job in the House where he has an unbelievably slim margin. His margin in the House is somewhere between one and three votes, depending on who actually shows up for the vote.
And yet somehow last night he was capable of pushing through this gigantic House budget bill. Now, there are all sorts of problems with these gigantic bills. The biggest problem, of course, is that no one in power ever has any interest in serious cuts to the things that matter in American government. Instead, they sort of shuttle those cuts off down the road. They make commitments to commit.
All of that has just been a regular feature of American government from Republicans and Democrats for as long as I've been alive, which is why the line in terms of national debt keeps going up and to the right. However. What this budget bill does is it enshrines the Trump tax cuts of 2017. It provides additional funding to defense, which is necessary.
It provides additional funding to the border, which is necessary. And it pledges to actually take a look at cuts that will offset some of the loss of tax revenue theoretically to be achieved by the Trump tax cuts. And last night, there was all sorts of consternation about whether House Republicans would be able to get it together.
Originally, it seemed as though there were some House Republicans who were going to object to the House budget bill and who are not going to get on board with it because they believe that it didn't cut enough. A lot of these were fiscal conservatives. And again, I agree with them on principle.
I also understand that the only way a bill gets done here where you have Republicans in purple districts and where you have such a slim margin. is with bigger spending than you would want. This was Mike Johnson's entire proposal as Speaker of the House.
The reason that he pursued one big, beautiful bill is because he figured that if you separated all of these issues out, what you would get is a bunch of bills that would never pass because you'd have too many purists on too many issues who would be able to sink the boat. So instead, wrap it up in one big ball, make people vote up or make people vote down. That was the strategy here.
And if you don't like it, then maybe more Republicans should have been elected to Congress. It turns out that if you have a very slim majority, the bill that comes out is likely to be more quote-unquote moderate in its approach than if you had a much larger majority where you could lose a few moderates in the vote and still maintain a majority. According to Politico,
House Republicans approved a budget framework for President Trump's sweeping domestic policy agenda on Tuesday, a major victory for Speaker Johnson, who worked with Trump and fellow leaders in a chaotic last-ditch effort to win over naysayers within the Republican ranks. And Republicans, again, were very split on this.
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