"The House on Thursday passed a budget blueprint for President Trump's agenda after most Republican holdouts received assurances that the Senate would pursue $1.5 trillion in savings. CBS News congressional reporter Taurean Small has more."
From CBS News
Just to clear up a few things, first:
The Senate didn't pass a budget last weekend and the House didn't pass a budget plan this morning. Both chambers of Congress passed their own budget blueprints. The Senate passed a blueprint that has $4 billion in cuts or savings. But the House passed a plan that calls for $1.5 trillion in savings.
You don't have to be math wizard to know that there's a huge difference between 1.5 trillion dollars and 4 billion dollars. So the House and Senate are still about $1.5 trillion apart in finalizing a final budget bill and moving forward with their economic agenda.
Yahoo News reported that: "House Adopts Senate Budget Resolution As Conservatives Cave", but the fact is its Senate Majority Leader John Thune who caved. His budget plan wouldn't have passed the House. The House passed their own budget plan only because the Majority Leader told them that he would try to find the $1.5 trillion in cuts, instead of just $4 billion that Senate Republicans passed.
So now the real hard work begins: can the House and Senate find enough in budget cuts that could pass in the House and Senate, without going too far in cuts and prevent vulnerable House and Senate Republicans from voting no?
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