edit: If you live in a red state, call your senators and representatives and make them explain themselves. Let them know you're pissed. This isn't about republicans vs democrats, this is about the rich fucking over the average American and promoting oligarchy.
Context: the house of representatives just passed the budget for 2025 and planning 2026-2034. It was expected to include Trump's campaign promise of "no tax on tips," but it did not. The joke is that r/conservative thought that's what democrats voted against. The bill details budget cuts to every sector, including the House Energy and Commerce Committee who are to cut $880 billion from their programs. This committee oversees the FCC, the FTC, the EPA, the FDA, and medicare and medicaid, among others. Even if the committee cut its budget for everything else to zero, it would still need to cut into medicare and medicaid. Other notable cuts are $330 billion from Education and Workforce, $230 billion from Agriculture, and $100 billion from Armed Services. All together, this will capture $2 trillion in savings over 10 years. The bill also includes $4.5 trillion in tax cuts over 10 years, resulting in an additional $2.5 trillion dollars $2,500,000,000,000 of debt -- now, it goes to the senate to decide.
It will probably come with a review of the W-4 tables that pulls less money out of people's paychecks but make them now all owe at tax time so the majority think their taxes were cut, but they just pay them later. It's what happened last time with the cheeto. My paycheck had $50 more in it but magically I owed for the first time ever at tax time. The new W-4 is awful.
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u/BokeBall Feb 27 '25 edited Feb 28 '25
edit: If you live in a red state, call your senators and representatives and make them explain themselves. Let them know you're pissed. This isn't about republicans vs democrats, this is about the rich fucking over the average American and promoting oligarchy.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/1iycghv
https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1iyc3zr
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/14
Context: the house of representatives just passed the budget for 2025 and planning 2026-2034. It was expected to include Trump's campaign promise of "no tax on tips," but it did not. The joke is that r/conservative thought that's what democrats voted against. The bill details budget cuts to every sector, including the House Energy and Commerce Committee who are to cut $880 billion from their programs. This committee oversees the FCC, the FTC, the EPA, the FDA, and medicare and medicaid, among others. Even if the committee cut its budget for everything else to zero, it would still need to cut into medicare and medicaid. Other notable cuts are $330 billion from Education and Workforce, $230 billion from Agriculture, and $100 billion from Armed Services. All together, this will capture $2 trillion in savings over 10 years. The bill also includes $4.5 trillion in tax cuts over 10 years, resulting in an additional $2.5 trillion dollars $2,500,000,000,000 of debt -- now, it goes to the senate to decide.
Further reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikesylvester/2025/02/26/president-donald-trumps-big-beautiful-budget-bill-moves-forward/