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Chapter 1: What happened to Trump's budget proposal?
This is an unmitigated disaster for MAGA Mike Johnson, folks, and we've been predicting it here at the Midas Touch Network. Donald Trump's, quote, big, beautiful budget, end quote, was just voted down by members of the GOP in the Budget Committee. Yep, the GOP members shot down Trump's budget. They said it was going to increase the deficit by trillions of dollars. And get this,
There is even more opposition to Trump's bill in the Senate than in the House. But this bill has been derailed in the Budget Committee. MAGA Mike Johnson yesterday was saying, nope, it's on track. Things are going great. Here on the Midas Touch Network, we were saying, nope. Remember what we reported earlier this morning as well?
We said that bill ain't going to make it out of the Budget Committee. And here's the moment where the House Budget Committee failed to advance the GOP tax and spending bill. 16 to 21. There were four no votes. Then there was a fifth vote that was made by someone in order to reintroduce this, perhaps in the future. Let me show you what went down. Let's play the clip.
The clerk shall report.
Mr. Chair, on the vote, there were 16 ayes and 21 noes.
Well, the no's have it. The committee stands in recess, subject to the call of the chair. I want to thank everybody for their time and patience, and Godspeed and safe travels.
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Chapter 2: Who voted against Trump's budget in the GOP?
So here's what was going down in real time. You had MAGA Republican Congress member Norman, a no vote. MAGA Republican Congress member Chip Roy, a no vote. MAGA Republican Congress member Brechin, a no vote. MAGA Republican Congress member Clyde, a no vote. And then MAGA Republican Congress member Lloyd Smucker changed his vote to a no vote. likely in order to try to, I guess, bring this back up.
But the House budget's vote on that reconciliation bill has failed. MAGA Mike humiliated by MAGA Republicans, a major Friday disaster for Donald Trump. Now, we got wind of this as well when we saw Ralph Norman, MAGA Republican, and others kind of walking with a smile on their face earlier today. They kind of indicated what was about to go down.
We thought this was going to happen, but MAGA Mike was lying and saying it wasn't. Here's what MAGA Republican Ralph Norman was doing earlier in the day when he was walking there and he's like, I'm not going to tell you what I'm going to do. Here, play this clip.
Are you meeting with the majority?
We'll be up there.
Will you guys advance the agenda today?
We'll be in the room.
With Gil back, they can lose both of you. What's going on?
You'll recall yesterday, MAGA Mike Johnson was, surprise, surprise, lying. By the way, this guy is the worst speaker of the house ever. We'll see if he's going to lose his job now soon. I think MAGA Mike is indeed on the chopping blocks. But yesterday, MAGA Mike says, this big, beautiful bill, it's all going to plan. Yes, we have some issues around SALT. right? The state and local tax deduction.
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Chapter 3: What did MAGA Mike Johnson say about the budget?
As I mentioned, there's even more resistance to this horrible atrocious tax bill that by its own very terms raises the debt ceiling by almost $5 trillion. There's more opposition in the Senate to this than even in the House of Representatives. So this thing still has to, this thing has to go to the Senate and senators have said, this is dead on arrival. Even if you pass this thing,
which it didn't even get out of the budget committee. They said, we ain't passing this thing. This is why I like to show you the receipts. I don't want to buy media narratives. Let's just listen to what the people are saying, right? Here's MAGA Republican Ron Johnson from Wisconsin. Here's what he's got to say about this. Play this clip.
Can you see yourself voting for this big, beautiful bill at all?
not not in the current structure no yeah i i refuse to vote for something that's going to actually increase the deficits exacerbate the problem from the current situation again we we shouldn't be talking about this right now we should have been doing all the work like you say the multi-step process we'd already have the border funding we'd have defense we'd have 850 billion dollars of real savings banked already
Plus, we could have extended current tax law, taken tax increase off the table. We could have had all that done, but unfortunately, decisions were made to do one big, beautiful bill. It's not beautiful, I'm sorry. It's not a big, beautiful bill. That's called rhetoric. It's mislabeling.
He's a no vote. Then you've got MAGA Republican Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky. He's a no vote. So Senator Johnson, Senator Paul, here, play this clip.
Senator, what do you need to see in this bill to be on board?
The problem is, is it's asking conservatives like myself to raise the debt ceiling $5 trillion. That's historic. No one's ever raised the debt ceiling that much. It will be a record for Congress to raise the debt $5 trillion, but also it indicates that this year, the deficit will be over two trillion, but it means they're anticipating close to three trillion for the next year.
It's really a slap in the face that those of us who are excited about Elon Musk and Doge and all the cuts, where are the cuts? If the cuts are real, why are we gonna borrow five trillion? So what I proposed was this, I put forward a proposal and we voted on it to raise the debt ceiling for three months. Why?
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Chapter 4: Why are Senators opposed to the budget bill?
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The MAGA Republicans who voted to block this bill in the budget committee, who derailed this thing in the budget committee, they're also the people who want Medicaid cut, like a lot of them. These are the people. So their view is that if their view is you have to cut Medicaid or else you're going to balloon the deficit. So how are they even ever going to solve this? I mean, take a look.
This is MAGA Republican Buddy Carter. talking about ending Medicaid. Play this clip.
We're trying to get on Medicaid, and yet we've got some able bodies who who really should not be on there or should be able to to go to another insurance product that would help them to have health insurance. And yes, we all agree that we want to try to make sure everybody has access to health care, but at the same time, not on the program that was intended for the most vulnerable in our society.
Yeah, look, I mean, I'm sure there's a fair amount of waste to be cut as well. And this was yesterday as well when you had MAGA Republican Jason Smith go on Will Cain's show. Here's what they had to say. Let's play this clip.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of the budget failure?
One of the debates your colleagues are having as well is over Medicaid cuts and are they steep enough or are they too steep? There seems to be a little bit of divide like that on the right. Congressman Roy was on our program yesterday and he said whether or not it's SALT or whether or not it's Medicaid cuts, it's not enough.
And he reflects some other voices out there like some senators that he'll have to go through eventually as well, like Ron Johnson. This is what they had to say.
There's a lot of overlap there for the big blue states that are taking a lot of Medicaid money for all of these able-bodied people. I think we need those reforms. So if they want their SALT increase, maybe they should come work with us on Medicaid. I think that Scott Besson is right. But let's be very clear.
All we're talking about, to Ron Johnson's point, Senator Ron Johnson, is $150 billion a year in savings in this bill out of a $7 trillion spend for your government.
Chairman, is there enough? Is it enough deficit reduction to get the votes that you're going to need to pass the House and the Senate?
You know, failure is not an option, Will, because if we're not able to pass this bill, what's even worse is that there's zero spending cuts. And what's even worse is that all the IRA credits are intact. That would happen if we're not able to pass this bill. If we pass what the House has projected to pass, and that's one point Let me say when we pass what the House has projected to pass.
The $1.5 trillion worth of cuts would be 300% more than what's ever been cut by any Congress in the history of America. But we could do better. I totally agree. But it's all about balancing and we can't lose more than three people. So we just have to thread that needle. But if we can't pass this bill, there's going to be zero in cuts. That's what I would let my colleagues know.
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Chapter 6: How does the budget failure affect the GOP?
And folks, even Josh Hawley, mega Republican Josh Hawley from Missouri, even he was basically saying, look, one of the big problems about this tax bill is it cuts Medicaid. And he's like, I can't pay. I don't want to give Hawley credit for it much. But at least he says here we can cut Medicaid. And he admits that Trump's bill is going to cut Medicaid.
And this bill is what failed to pass in the House today. Play this clip. Do you agree with the speaker? Is this bill not a cut to Medicaid?
Well, the right thing to do is not to cut Medicaid. So I'm glad to hear him say that. Manu, it ought to be just a basic foundational principle. It is wrong to cut health care for the working poor. And that's what we're talking about here with Medicaid. My state is a Medicaid expansion state. Over 20% of Missourians, including hundreds of thousands of children, are on Medicaid.
And Manu, they're not on Medicaid because they want to be. They're on Medicaid because they cannot afford health insurance in the private market. These are working people and their children who need health care. And it's just wrong to go and cut their health care when they're trying to make ends meet, trying to help their kids, trying to make sure that they're able to provide for their families.
So I hope that the House GOP and the Senate GOP will get the message here. By the way, President Trump has said the same thing. No Medicaid benefit cuts.
Last point I want to make too, there's so much nefarious things about this tax bill. It also cuts like 40% of homeowners assistance as well to low income people. It's going to make millions of people homeless. It's going to take away healthcare for millions of people. But here's HUD Secretary Scott Turner. Here's what he's got to say about it too. And he's talking about
You know, I mean, under this budget, I mean, literally 40 percent of all rental assistance out the drain, homeowners out the drain. I mean, Donald Trump's whole platform, the fraud was lower costs, make housing more affordable. And of course, he's a fraud. He's a felon, Trump. He's a sexual abuser. He's a fraud. He's a liar. He's a criminal. Anyway, here, play this clip.
There should be new qualifications to receive the welfare benefits. You write, able-bodied adults receiving benefits must work, participate in job training or volunteer in their communities at least 20 hours a week. So tell us about that. Is that a way to significantly cut back? How can the administration enforce those policies to reshape the welfare system?
maria i think it's a paradigm shift uh you know as well as i do work restores dignity work brings pride you know and our welfare system deviated from what it was intended to be from its origin it was intended for the most vulnerable to the most needy in our country but now we've created uh welfare as a lifestyle in our country and you know america is not a welfare state
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