House Republicans have advanced a budget framework to support President Donald Trump’s goals combining tax cuts, border security, defense spending, and energy policy into a single legislative package, according to the New York Post. The House Budget Committee approved the resolution in a 21 to 16 vote after extensive negotiations.
“The budget resolution allowed the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee to increase the deficit by $4.5 trillion over 10 years for tax cuts,” The Post reports. “It set a non-binding goal of $2 trillion in spending cuts and doled out specific assignments to committees for $1.5 trillion worth of reductions. The measure also called for $300 billion in additional spending for border security and national defense and to hike the debt limit by $4 trillion.”
House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) said, “This budget resolution provides the fiscal framework for what will be one of the most consequential pieces of legislation in modern history, and the principal legislative vehicle for delivering on President Trump’s America First agenda.”
“The era of wasteful, woke and weaponized government is over,” he added. “This budget resolution is more than numbers on a ledger, it’s a blueprint for restoring America’s security, prosperity, and leadership in the world.”
Other House Republicans praised the measure as an effort to reduce government spending. According to The Post, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said during a committee meeting that the package is a “giant step forward to reduce spending,” adding that inflation and the expansion of the government has been “strangling the future of our children and grandchildren.”
“I’m proud of what the chairman has put forward,” Roy, who has been pushing to reduce the deficit, said. “Our government spends too much, and we have to stop that. And the American people deserve to have more money in their pockets. This budget accomplishes both.”
Although talk of splitting the package in two came up in anticipation of pushback, House Republican leadership worried that doing so would make it more difficult to get hardliners on board. House Speaker Mike Johnson hopes the final package will get through the House by Easter.
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