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/catjuggler]

Is Bernie doing a Booker right now? I'm confused

ETA to be more specific, there's a youtube channel that seems to have him having been talking for hours, but CSPAN just started a few minutes ago. Same clothes. Both say they're live. I don't understand

https://www.c-span.org/event/us-senate/us-senate/432231

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xv-RYbEJsQ

[u/VoraciousChallenge → u/catjuggler]

That YouTube channel appears to be just looping a speech he gave two weeks ago. The stream says it started on the 25th, so presumably it's just been looping ever since.

https://www.c-span.org/clip/us-senate/user-clip-sen-bernie-sanders-senate-speech-march-25-2025/5158296

[u/catjuggler → u/VoraciousChallenge]

Ah okay, thanks!