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Senate sets budget vote

Senate sets budget vote

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The Big Story 

Senate tees up budget resolution vote

Senate Republicans are set to vote this week on a budget resolution as the chamber pushes to enact key parts of President Trump's policy agenda.

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) announced plans Tuesday for the chamber to take up the measure advanced by the Senate Budget Committee last week.

 

That puts the resolution on track to hit the floor this week as the chamber pressures the House to act.

 

“It’s time to act on the decisive mandate the American people gave to President Trump in November. Securing the border, rebuilding our defense, and unleashing American energy. That starts this week with passing Chairman @LindseyGrahamSC ’s budget,” Thune wrote on the social platform X, referring to the Budget panel chair. “Let’s get it done.”

 

The budget resolution package includes roughly $325 billion to implement Trump’s plans to boost border security and launch mass deportations, increase defense spending and advance his energy agenda. 

 

After 50 hours of debate, the chamber would hold a vote-a-rama, an hours-long period of votes on myriad amendments.

 

The Hill's Al Weaver has more here.
 

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Key business and economic news with implications this week and beyond:
 

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Nobel-winning economist warns Trump policies risk causing stagflation

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Tax Watch 

Welcome to Tax Watch, a new feature in The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter focused on the fight over tax reform and the push to extend the 2017 Trump tax cuts this year.
 
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Possible Medicaid cuts open up new front of resistance to GOP agenda

Republicans want to make cuts to Medicaid to help pay for extensions to the 2017 Trump tax cuts, but the prospect of slashing the federal health care system is opening a new rift within the conference.

 

Budget hawks and the state and local tax (SALT) deduction caucus have been the two main oppositional blocs to the mainline Republican agenda so far, but now party moderates like Reps. Nicole Malliotakis (N.Y.) and David Valadao (Calif.) are forming another front of resistance.

 

Several Republicans have discussed cutting the amount by which the federal government matches state investments in Medicaid, but there are other Medicaid cuts under consideration, as well.

 

These include lowering the Medicaid provider tax safe harbor from 6 percent to 4 percent between 2026 and 2027 and then to 3 percent in 2028 and after; and standardizing Medicaid administrative matching rates at 50 percent.

 

Reducing the provider safe harbor could bring in as much as $175 billion over the budget window, while locking in the matching rates could bring in around $70 billion.

 

— Tobias Burns

 

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