GOP Fiscal Responsibility Is Always a Bill Away
As a result, the bill added more than $4 trillion to deficits over a decade. But Republicans voted “yes” amid promises that their fiscal corrective would come in reconciliation 2.0.Then, this year, reconciliation 2.0 had no spending cuts, only $70 billion in new spending for Trump’s deportation machine. The Republican fiscal hawks were again unhappy.
- ▪As a result, the bill added more than $4 trillion to deficits over a decade.
- ▪But Republicans voted “yes” amid promises that their fiscal corrective would come in reconciliation 2.0.Then, this year, reconciliation 2.0 had no spending cuts, only $70 billion in new spending for Trump’s deportation machine.
- ▪The Republican fiscal hawks were again unhappy.
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ReceiptsGOP Fiscal Responsibility Is Always a Bill AwayRepublicans keep passing budget-busting bills—and promising spending cuts will come out tomorrow.Catherine RampellJuly 31Upgrade to listen10 minutes2157(Photo illustration by Bill Kuchman/The Bulwark | Photos: Shutterstock)STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE: Republicans are on the verge of finally fixing our out-of-control budget deficits.But first they need to get just one more unfunded spending binge out of their system—and then (they swear) they’ll get around to that purge.This is the story we’ve been hearing from supposed fiscal hawks in the GOP about why they have repeatedly voted to jam costly budget bills through the fast-track process known as “reconciliation.” Once a rarely used procedural tactic, reconciliation allows a…
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