A period into President Donald Trump's golden-age 2nd term, his economical argumentation has go precise clear: shrink the government, and crook the savings implicit to taxpayers.
Two points basal out.
First, there's a DOGE dividend successful the cards, possibly $5,000 per caput from $2 trillion worthy of savings arsenic Elon Musk and institution stroke up each the waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption endemic to the DC swamp.
And second, Mr. Trump wants his taxation cuts. And helium wants them now.
And nary Republicans successful the Senate oregon House should basal successful the mode of these Trumpian priorities.
For 1 reason, they are spectacularly bully policies to turn the system and nutrient a caller blue-collar boom.
And second, he's the President. He won the election, by a wide margin, carrying the fashionable ballot and each 7 plaything states.
Therefore, the Congress — and I'm reasoning of the Senate successful peculiar close present — should springiness the President what he's asking for.
Here's what the President said past night:
There's Mr. Trump's explicit database of tax-cut promises during the campaign. He wants promises made, promises kept. And the Republican Congress indispensable springiness it to him. Trump ran connected that committedness to his working-class coalition.
And fto maine remind — from President Trump's Truth Social station yesterday: "the House Resolution implements my FULL America First Agenda, EVERYTHING, not conscionable parts of it! We request some Chambers to walk the House Budget to "kickstart" the Reconciliation process, and determination each of our priorities to the conception of, "ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL."
And, by the way, Vice President JD Vance told CPAC this earlier today, "I really talked to the President astir this yesterday and helium said to me, look, it's precise uncommon that you tin get 2 reconciliation bills done successful 1 Congress, which is wherefore helium thinks we've got to bash a batch with that 1 big, beauteous bill."
What's more, Mr. Trump has signed connected to the idea of DOGE dividend checks. Here's what helium told the property aboard Air Force One past night:
Additionally, Mr. Trump has warmed to the thought that a Republican fund solution should see a plug that would correspond astatine slightest $1 trillion of DOGE savings.
When asked by the property past nighttime astir imaginable ways for Congress to wage for his taxation cuts, helium instantly said, "If you instrumentality a look astatine DOGE and you spot what's happening, we're redeeming billions of dollars."
And, erstwhile again, I volition notation Senator Mike Crapo, the Republican Chair of the Finance Committee, who continues to effort to transportation radical that fund reconciliation rules licence the House and Senate fund committees to signifier their ain baseline, including a existent argumentation that would people the extended Trump taxation cuts arsenic neutral successful their shortage impact.
And the CBO indispensable respond to the Republican fund baseline, alternatively than the different mode around.
So, Senators, springiness President Trump what helium wants — please.
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