Republicans Rig Budget Math and Gut Safety Net to Enrich Robber Barons
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📅 Date: April 5, 2025
📰 Action: Republicans Move to Rig the Rules, Slash the Safety Net, and Funnel Trillions to the Robber Barons
In a 48-hour blitz of betrayal, Republicans in Congress moved to rewrite budget rules, explode the national debt, and strip critical support from tens of millions of working Americans—all to deliver trillions in tax breaks to the robber barons who own them.
First came the Senate’s plan: cheat the math. GOP senators are trying to change how budgets are “scored,” swapping real accounting for fantasy estimates that pretend $3.8 trillion in tax cuts cost nothing. Then came the House: a brutal budget outline that targets Medicaid, food assistance, and core government functions in order to finance even more giveaways to the ultra-wealthy.
Senator Lindsey Graham and his allies are leading this war on working Americans under the banner of “efficiency”—but it’s nothing less than looting, rigging the system so their donors get richer while everyday Americans lose access to health care, food, and basic government services.
They’re not even pretending anymore.
Key Developments:
Senate Republicans moved to rewrite budget scoring rules—allowing them to treat $3.8 trillion in Trump-era tax cuts as if they’re free, despite clear Congressional Budget Office projections showing they would balloon the deficit.
Sources: AP News, Center for American ProgressThe “scoring scam” lets Republicans evade Senate reconciliation rules, pushing the deficit into overdrive while bypassing the Senate parliamentarian and using the Budget Committee’s own made-up numbers.
Sources: Center for American Progress, AP NewsSenate Republicans approved their budget blueprint 51–48 early Saturday, rejecting every Democratic amendment to protect Medicaid and Social Security while greenlighting over $5 trillion in tax breaks for the rich.
Sources: Roll Call, The GuardianHouse Republicans are pushing even deeper cuts—including $2 trillion slashed from Medicaid, food stamps, and other safety net programs, to partially “offset” tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit the top 1%.
Sources: The Guardian, Center for American ProgressEven GOP deficit hawks are sounding the alarm, with House conservatives calling the Senate plan “unserious” and warning it paves the way for unrestrained borrowing to benefit billionaires.
Sources: Politico, Roll Call
🔍 Why This Matters:
This isn’t budgeting—it’s robbery in broad daylight. The GOP is dismantling the rules of fiscal responsibility so they can funnel trillions to the richest people in the country, all while telling you they “have to” gut Medicaid, jack up borrowing costs, and cut Social Security offices.
This is the Trump regime’s real agenda: not just authoritarian rule, but a wholesale redistribution of wealth—from working Americans to their billionaire backers. They’re not saving America. They’re cashing it out.
🚨 The Bottom Line:
Republicans are trying to lie to your face, loot your future, and kill the safety net to make their robber baron donors even richer. This isn’t policy—it’s economic sabotage dressed up as reform.
📌Sources:
AP News: Measuring the cost of extending Trump’s tax cuts becomes a flashpoint in Congress
Center for American Progress: Senate Republicans Are Ignoring Senate Rules To Cut Taxes for the Rich
Roll Call: Budget plan with dueling tax, spending targets OK’d in Senate
The Guardian: Senate approves Republican plan for trillions in tax breaks and spending cuts
Politico: House deficit hawks rise up against Senate budget blueprint
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