The Senate parliamentarian has advised that a Medicaid provider tax overhaul central to President Donald Trump’s tax cut and spending bill does not adhere to the chamber’s procedural rules, delivering a crucial blow as Republicans rush to finish the package this week.
Guidance from the parliamentarian is rarely ignored and Republican leaders are now forced to consider difficult options. Republicans were counting on big cuts to Medicaid and other programs to offset trillions of dollars in Trump tax breaks, their top priority. Additionally, the Senate’s chief arbiter of its often complicated rules had advised against various GOP provisions barring certain immigrants from health care programs.
Republicans scrambled Thursday to respond, with some calling for challenging, or firing, the nonpartisan parliamentarian, who has been on the job since 2012. Democrats said the decisions would devastate GOP plans.
“We have contingency plans,” said Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota.
They better never elect me president. My first move; a 20% tax on all properties valued over 5 million, a 20% tax on all people who own more than 1 million in stocks OR ANY CONTROLLING interest in a corporation and a 20% tax on all income over 5 million per year.
Also, anyone with assets over 5 million per single person or 7.5 million for a family of two or more gets no-tax breaks ever.
I officially nominate Placebonickname to represent the “Share the Fucking Profits We’ve All Contributed To” party
Can you please make us change to the metric system and dump dst first really quick though?
Prioritize; millionaires need to pay, and people who make less than 60k a year will not pay an income tax, and we will create a single payer system for healthcare; also - we will eliminate gov funded military research until we can subsidize day care so that moms who want to work can actually afford to do so. Single moms will pay less if anything than a married, 2income household
Tbh we could probably cut all tax to individuals earning under $100K a year and it would still work while also not effectively be a tax on living in a high cost of living area as an educated individual. A quick check of zillow’s calculator (which I suspect is generous) says that with 60K a year, 20K down and 1K a month in bills you have a comfortable home buying price range of under 200K in the Northeast, which might get you a mobile home. Might. We almost jumped on a mobile home for almost that much and it was old and needed work and didn’t qualify for basically any good loans.
100K a year but otherwise the same info affords 400K for a house, which is basically where you are starting for an FHA loan eligible house there.
I’m flexible on the income limits and cutoffs
You have my vote. Heck do you need a vice president?
Republicans be turning in laws like it’s a high school paper rough draft they turned into their teach.
and just like that…“we’re not gonna touch medicaid” was never said by anyone 6 months ago
/gumpmeme
The GOP are traitors.
“Senate rules” are effectively guidelines. This will be ignored or worked around
