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/-SosaSnipes-]

If elections still exist a year and half from now and by some miracle have not been made more difficult to participate in than they currently are, the GOP is going to get wiped off the face of the earth in the 2026 midterms.

[u/insideout_waffle → u/-SosaSnipes-]

Sadly, you underestimate the power of stupidity. GOP brought us here twice already. We had a second chance to decide “not this time.” But here we are.

[u/fertthrowaway → u/insideout_waffle]

I dunno, almost no one alive today has experienced an economic depression. I don't think it will be so forgettable. Republicans were in power for 3 presidencies for 8 years before the Great Depression started (Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover). Then FDR (D) was president for 12 years fixing that shit.

[u/jgandfeed → u/fertthrowaway]

Uhh...2008 was not THAT long ago....

[u/fertthrowaway → u/jgandfeed]

2008 was a RECESSION. I said DEPRESSION. I've lived through 5 recessions personally, not counting whatever it's been post-COVID. And I think those are all nothing compared to what's coming.

[u/insideout_waffle → u/jgandfeed]

Recession not depression (a depression is far worse, but hey, here we go! 🎢)

[u/Brndrll → u/jgandfeed]

That was 16 years ago.

The 18-21 year olds voting last year were toddlers when that happened. TikTok only told them Kamala bad, Trump cool; it didn't teach them history.