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/Wisconsinsteph]

Raise the debt limit I thought he was going to get rid of a lot of the debt what happened to that?

[u/No_Consequence7919 → u/Wisconsinsteph]

Do you still not understand how Trump works? He is lying every step of the way, to get elected. Now that he was elected, the full power of his lies will take effect. I will not touch social security! That is looking to be a huge lie, hurting hundreds of thousands of people/families. Military veterans, the promises they/we signed up for, also affects former and future military personnel. The debt ceiling? Please, that is just wishful thinking. He has always wanted to enhance the millionaires and higher with tax brakes along with big corporations. He will gladly raise our debt by 12 trillion dollars or so. Just to put a smile on his upper wealth class of people. We common/normal people don't deserve things, if you can't afford it, you don't deserve it. With these tariffs, it will put the cost of things out of the price range of more people. I will use cigarettes as an analogy. When the government wanted to come down hard on cigarettes and their companies. They raised the tax hugely. This put the price out of range for the poorer of the population. The tariffs will do the same as, tariffs are just another word for tax. Don't believe it, check prices on things a week ago, and prices in a month from now. It will not hurt the wealthy but the lowly working man/families, will crush them in the long run. Housing, food, gas, automotive stuff, electricity and most everything else. Fight back with writing or call Senators and Congress person's relentlessly and VOTE.