![]() ![]() ![]() So what’s included in the budget slice that Republicans want to carve up? The bills stalled in the Appropriations Committee by Republicans’ infighting would cover spending for agriculture, including farm subsidies and nutrition programs border protections and homeland security a new program to assist veterans exposed to toxins during wartime and the construction and maintenance of military facilities and housing, to name some.Īlso on the Republicans’ block in future appropriations bills: air traffic control cancer and Alzheimer’s research Meals on Wheels infrastructure in general opioid treatments Head Start rail, food and drug safety and much, much more. And Republicans, if they have their way, would in effect wipe out those savings by extending all the Trump-era tax cuts for another decade, adding trillions more to the federal debt they purport to fear. Opinion Opinion: The best way to deal with the debt ceiling: Ignore itĬontrary to conventional wisdom, the president should just keep paying the nation’s bills if Republicans refuse to raise the debt ceiling.Įven then, the savings generated would be small relative to the nation’s annual budget deficits. ![]()
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