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/pandorasaurus]

He threatened tariffs during the campaign right? I’m perplexed why everyone is shocked it happened. Maybe we weren’t sure it would apply other nations, but we knew China as always going to be tariffed.

[u/ratedsar → u/pandorasaurus]

And during the VP debate, in reference to the Trump economic plan, Vance said "don't trust the experts (economists), trust "common" sense"

Because Vance was running on 4% unemployment, global supply chains, the most trusted currency, the best inflation adjusted wage growth in 50 years,, a reducing deficit, the softest landing after COVID, and generally stable monetary policy (under Biden and Obama before Trump) being bad - and apparently people bought it

[u/NumeralJoker → u/ratedsar]

That's what kills me.

The inflation people hated was mostly corporate price gouging. It was very artificial and it was actually reversing towards the end of Biden's term on at least some essentials. I wasn't as well off as 2018 fiscally, but I was moving in that direction with a better career path.

Now? I literally have no idea if any of that will exist a year from now. What Trump's doing is that insanely stupid, and the jobs that they claim will be created, either won't exist at all, or will become sweatshop levels of labor with 0 protections.

If we don't legally counter this and quickly, America truly will flip to third world status or worse.