Associated Press: Conservatives Block Donald Trump's Big Tax Breaks Bill in a Stunning Setback

"Wide of House Budget Committee during a markup session on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Rep. Chip Roy is introduced...

Source:Associated Press with a look at U.S. Representative Chip Roy (Republican, Texas) with his speech on the House Budget Committee.

From the Associated Press

U.S. Representative Chip Roy (Republican, Texas): 

"But I have to now admonish my colleagues on this side of the aisle. This bill falls profoundly short. It does not do what we say it does with respect to deficits. The fact of the matter is, on the spending, what we're dealing with here on tax cuts in spending, a massive front-loaded deficit increase. That's the truth. That's the truth. Deficits will go up in the first half of the ten year budget window. And we all know it's true and we shouldn't do that. We shouldn't say that we're doing something we're not doing. The fact of the matter is this bill has back loaded savings and has front loaded spending. Nowhere near the Senate budget top line, by the way.

We are writing checks we cannot cash, and our children are going to pay the price. So I am a no on this bill unless serious reforms are made today, tomorrow, Sunday, we're having conversations as we speak. But something needs to change or you're not going to get my support. I yield back."

This is what Fred Schneider wrote yesterday on The New Democrat about President Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill": 

"I think Jamie Gangel made the key point here: "Donald Trump went to Capitol Hill to show some love. But when he was there, he told House Republicans "You either vote for this bill, or you deserved to be voted out of office". (That's a paraphrase) 

I'm not a whip in Congress, or anywhere else, (for that matter) but threatening your own members in the House, when your are the President, is not a sign of love. More like: "You do exactly what I say, or you are going to be in a lot of trouble". It's more like governing with an iron fist, instead of: "This is where we are. What can I do to bring people to my side and what can I do for them, to help them along". 

I don't know if this bill is going to pass the House or not... especially by Memorial Day. But in its current form, it's a huge deficit, perhaps even debt bomb. So it wouldn't pass in the Senate because of it's reconciliation rules, but also because of the cuts to Medicaid, Food Assistance, and School Lunches for low-income students, that vulnerable Senate Republicans don't want to vote for. 

So my question is: is it even worth passing this big, Donald Trump agenda bill, knowing it will be very unpopular when people actually find out what's in it and how it would affect interest rates, and all the health care and food cuts in it and also knowing that it won't even make it out of Congress, because the Senate might not even be able to take it up, without getting 60 votes, first?" 

From The New Democrat

I'm not going to give you the "I'm old enough to remember when... because it's cliche now. And besides, I've probably used it too much on this blog anyway. But when I first started blogging back in 2010-11, when I was in my mid-30s, I remember what were called Tea Party members back in Congress (especially in the House) talking about "deficit bombs, "debt bombs", the deficit and national debt getting out-of-control, and the need to restore fiscal responsibility in the U.S. Government again. 

Then comes Donald Trump along in 2015-16 and he becomes President of the United States in 2017 and fiscal conservatism all but becomes a political dinosaur in Washington. The Republican Party goes all in (as they say) on their right-wing cultural war... and that's where American politics has remain, really since 2017. 

At the end of the day, the House Freedom Caucus (which is really poorly named, for multiple reasons) could cave faster than a mouse in a cat fight. They did during the government shutdown debate back in March, which did nothing to address the deficit and national debt. But we might be finally seeing the old Republican Party (you know, Conservative Republicans) on a political comeback tour and at least a handful of House Republicans getting back to their fiscal conservative roots. 

And this budget debate going on between House Republicans right now, is refreshing for me to see as a JFK/Clinton New Democrat, someone who takes the budget deficit and national debt seriously and wants something real done about it, to address those fiscal problems. 

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