Discussion Thread: US Senate Debates and Considers the Republican Budget Resolution on April 4th, 2025

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News and Analysis

• CBS: Senate Republicans unveil budget resolution key to unlocking Trump agenda (Published two days ago)

• NBC: Senate Republicans vote to advance a massive budget blueprint for Trump's agenda | The Senate voted 52-48 to begin debate on a multitrillion-dollar plan that would cut taxes, boost spending for immigration enforcement and the military and raise the debt limit. (Published yesterday)

• NBC: GOP concerns about tax cut strategy and Medicaid loom over Senate budget

• AP: Republicans moving ahead with Trump’s ‘big’ bill of tax breaks and spending cuts amid tariff uproar

• ABC: Video: Senate Republicans set to push Trump agenda forward with vote-a-rama

• Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget: Senate Budget Could Enable Unprecedented Deficit Increase

Live Updates

Relevant text-based, live update pages are being maintained by the following outlets: NBC, and Politico (soft paywall).

Where to Watch

• PBS NewsHour via YouTube: Senate convenes as Republicans push for Trump’s budget bill of tax and spending cuts

• C-SPAN: U.S. Senate, 2025-04-04 | The Senate is considering a revised version of the 2025 House Republicans' budget resolution.

[u/mmlauren35]

How permanent and detrimental is everything he’s doing? Say we have a democratic president in 4 years. When can I expect to feel normal again? 😖

[u/Ready_Nature → u/mmlauren35]

The rest of the world will not trust us again. They know any deal is at best good until the next election

[u/Mnudge → u/Ready_Nature]

What’s really depressing is that the US has had it good and the idiots on both sides assumed it would last forever.

Through money, power and military might we controlled the world.

That shit is done. The right has slammed isolationism right into their vein with a massive delusion that the US is the power they were in the last century

They’ll move on without us.

[u/belisario262 → u/Mnudge]

indeed. we're already doing it. is true, it won't be the same for the US even if they are able to throw Trump out in 4 years.

[u/MJcorrieviewer → u/Ready_Nature]

Even if the US elects a great president next time, who knows who will be elected after that? If you can go from Obama to Trump once, you can do it again. The damage done to US reputation, influence and power in the world has been greatly diminished and it's going to take a long time to get it back.