The Senate is moving forward with a two-bill strategy President Trump's agenda Following a lack of agreement among House Republicans on top-line budget numbers.
But House Republicans are still trying to stick to landing on one building plan Trump supports and are trying to make it An immeasurable price tag By reducing the length of the proposed tax extension, it makes it more accepting of budget hawks.
“What we're talking about [is] We tinker with the amount of time we spend on tax cuts and see what the total is compared to what we can get from spending cuts,” said the Budget Hawk representative. Chip Roy (R-Texas) told reporters this week.
Republicans met Tuesday night, Extended by 5 years Of tax cuts rather than 10-year extensions, where current individual tax rates and many business regulations expire at the end of this year.
Without budget cuts, Republican legislative agenda could cost just as much $7 trillion The next 10 years. That's according to estimates by Andrew Lautz of the Bipartisan Policy Center, numbers Roy appears to confirm.
“What we're talking about is… top-line spending of $7 trillion,” Roy said. Steve Scullies (r-la.), it was insufficient. “We believe there is more to curb spending than that.”
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