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/legbreaker]

I don’t get why the democrats aren’t blowing up the news with the 5-7 Trillion dollar deficit increase that the senate is proposing.

It is such a monstrosity. The GOP voters hate the deficit, but somehow their politicians are getting away with blowing up the debt limit for billionaire tax cuts at the same time they are crashing the economy.

There is no world where this makes any logical sense. No GOP voter wants this.

It’s such an easy point to hit them hard with.

[u/phoenixmatrix → u/legbreaker]

but but DOGE saved so much money! /s

[u/rumbleokc05 → u/phoenixmatrix]

Doge has accounted for a 140 billion in savings. Is the amount not considered “so much money”? In curiosity what is that number? One that qualifies as “so much”.

[u/Drolb → u/rumbleokc05]

It ain’t 5 trillion though is it

Like, nowhere near at all

[u/pmotiveforce → u/rumbleokc05]

Lol, according to what? Doge?

DOGE does not save money at all. Congress is the only entity that can save money. If Trump was serious he would have had a real Doge prepare a giant report with specific instances of waste to present to Congress.

Be he's not a serious person so he sells the gullible and the credulous a line of garbage via press releases and fake numbers.

[u/rumbleokc05 → u/pmotiveforce]

Does cutting wages not save money?

[u/nasorrty346tfrgser → u/rumbleokc05]

Look up the Treasury website, it published everyday US gov spending. You can see there is no changes at all comparing to last year.

Or you wanna say "Is just 70 days give them a break"? Then don't swing around with the 140 B savings everywhere.

[u/rumbleokc05 → u/nasorrty346tfrgser]

Would you say cutting wages and programs saves money?

[u/nasorrty346tfrgser → u/rumbleokc05]

No. It would cost more money because

A) A lot of USAID programs are already finished. Like literally the US farmers that sold their corps to the US gov for the third world aid, and US gov (DOGE) refused to pay them even the sellers done their part and they have signed a contract.

B) Many federal employees being fired, but even probationary employees have rights. Can't just fire over 10,000 people in one day and claim they all have performance issue.

So we have more lawsuits going on, and the gov has to reinstate employees, and pay back. Lawsuits ain't cheap, and who pay for those stupid lawsuits? Us.

But I agree with you that cutting program will save money. The easiest one is all the contracts to SpaceX. No need to send man to Mars. If we don't need to spend money to another country, we certainly don't need to spend money on another PLANET. That alone would be more than all the ACTUAL savings from Doge. You think US still has money to spare on Mars?