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Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2026 through 2034.
SenateStar Print ordered on the reported concurrent resolution.
House floor actionsPursuant to clause 1(c) of rule XIX, the House resumed consideration of H. Con. Res. 14. (consideration: CR H1579-1580)
Library of CongressResolving differences -- House actions: On motion that the House agree to the Senate amendment Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 216 - 214 (Roll no. 100).
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House floor actionsPursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 313, Mr. Arrington called up the Senate amendment to H. Con. Res. 14.
SenateMessage on Senate action sent to the House.
SenateResolution agreed to in Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 51 - 48. Record Vote Number: 191.
SenateConsidered by Senate. (consideration: CR S2275-2360)
SenateMotion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (CR S2159)
SenateReceived in the Senate. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 38.
House floor actionsRule H. Res. 161 passed House.
House floor actionsThe House Committee on the Budget reported an original measure, H. Rept. 119-4, by Mr. Arrington.
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To the chairman and the minority, I first want to apologize to everyone. I have one of my crappy lung infections, so at some point, I am going to start coughing and doing an inhaler. Just ignore me. Somehow, I thought that would be funnier.
Here is the reality, Mr. Chairman: Our Democratic colleagues opposed the American people's tax cuts back in 2017, and they oppose their tax cuts today.
What does this bill include? The fiscal year 2025 budget resolution fulfills promises to secure America's borders, increase our national defense, unleash our energy potential, and finally start to get our house in order.
We are trying to do sort of four things tonight: Start a process that we can make the tax cuts permanent; give money to the Department of Homeland Security to continue to secure our border; cut trillions of dollars of waste, which does exist; and support our military.
For the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern), pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the purpose of debate only.
Let's discuss the budget resolution before us. To be sure, this resolution only sets up a discussion of a reconciliation bill, and the reconciliation bill is where we actually establish how much is spent and where it should be spent.
But here is the problem. The spending number is lower, but this bill also adds $325 billion in new spending: $150 billion for the military- industrial complex and another $175 billion for the border. But that is new money.
Now, one of the things that has been interesting in this debate, because I heard lots of conversation from my colleagues on the other side about massive new tax cuts for billionaires--but let me tell you what, if you vote against this budget resolution, you will be voting for.
Seventy-two percent of Americans and even 55 percent of Democrats will say that they support cutting the waste and the fraud and the abuse because they have seen lists of dollars that have gone out from this last administration. They say: This seems like a waste. This seems like fraud.
What is worse than a bankrupt country? How does that help children? How does that help single moms? It doesn't. That is what this bill attempts to stop or at least begin the process of healing.
Let me be clear, a vote against this budget is a vote to raise taxes on low-income Americans. Mr. Chair, $2.6 trillion of the tax cuts in this resolution are people making less than $400,000 a year. Democrats campaigned on not allowing taxes to increase on people making less than $400,000 a year.
To fix that, my colleagues have to find resources, find savings, and do what we are doing in this legislation because it takes personnel. It takes equipment. It takes space. It takes detention beds. It takes judges.
My colleagues on the other side of the aisle continue to talk about the harmful provisions within this resolution. In reality, this is the beginning of the process. It is the beginning of a course correction as desperately needed following 4 years of policy that placed America in a position of excess and decline.
It is my understanding that after this resolution passes, House leadership will be working with the Senate to come to an agreement on reconciliation language so that the committees can begin drafting specific policies to achieve the administration's agenda.
My constituents know firsthand how the failed policies of the left resulted in increased grocery and energy bills, opened our borders, imperiled our national security, accelerated our debt, and made it next to impossible to build and use our natural resources here at home, making us dependent on our adversaries.
I rise today in support of the House's fiscal year 2025 budget resolution, which is a critical step needed to unlock a reconciliation bill that is going to help secure our border and revitalize our military.
I rise in strong support of this resolution because it delivers on the promise that we made to the American people by extending the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and fulfilling President Trump's agenda.
My colleague and friend from Oregon, who is on the floor here, said my amendment back then was a ruse to kick people off the program. But to my colleague and friend from Oregon, if that is true, here is my question: Why did he vote for the exact same amendment in 2017?
The House Republican budget resolution will stop a 22 percent tax hike for the average taxpayer. It will put $1,700 back into the pockets of a median family of four and will prevent the child tax credit from being cut in half for 40 million families. This bill doesn't take from the working class.
Failure to unite on this vote may very well result in breaking up the President's agenda. I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes.'' Together we can build a stronger, more prosperous America before it is too late.
This amendment asks us to believe a lie, and the lie is that FEMA provides nonpartisan disaster relief. Until a few months ago, many of us hoped and expected that that would be the case. Alas, it was not.
I rise today in strong support of the House Budget Committee's FY25 budget resolution which advances President Trump's America First agenda by unlocking the budget reconciliation process to achieve the President's priorities and restore fiscal sanity in Washington.
As my colleagues on the Energy and Commerce Committee begin their critical efforts, I urge them to keep this top of mind. I urge all my colleagues to support this good resolution.
Colleagues, there are a lot of problems in the world: male pattern baldness, lactose intolerance, flat feet. There is a time and place to address those problems, but it is not tonight, and it is not on this bill. Just like it is not the time and place to address Signal either.
Today, 60 percent of American taxpayers are facing rising taxes and uncertainty. To address these challenges, this resolution provides for the extension of the Trump tax cuts, funds the largest mass deportation operation in U.S. history, and cuts at least $1.5 trillion in waste, fraud, and abuse from our Federal budget.
This budget is a critical step forward toward reining in out-of- control Federal spending. To be clear, this resolution has no provisions that make cuts to Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid. Mr. Chair, I would tell those folks watching at home to read the bill. It is not in there.
This resolution gives us the framework that we need to meet the demands of those 77 million Americans. Those demands include fixing our border crisis once and for all. This resolution does that. Those demands include unleashing American energy. This resolution does that.
This is only the first step in a process where everyone will have a voice. But it's a significant step toward American success and security, and I urge my colleagues to support it.
With respect, this amendment is all Henry and no Kissinger. It is exquisitely dumb. Even a cursory examination of the statutory authority shows that this body does not have the authority to address the Social Security trust fund in reconciliation.
The American people want us to have a thoughtful exchange here. I will hopefully contribute to that, especially when I hear some of the accusations made that are just off base, misleading, and false.
I urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment. We certainly need a cease-fire in the Ukraine war. We are closer and closer to having an agreement between President Trump and President Zelenskyy about a cease-fire, and it is quite obvious that President Putin is not at all interested in peace.
This resolution not only saves an average family about $16,000 over the next 10 years through reduced spending, it also prevents a crushing $1,500 annual tax hike on a struggling family earning just $75,000 a year. I have news for the minority leader: That ain't rich. They can't afford it, and they don't deserve it.
I rise in opposition to Amendment No. 1726. I appreciate the concerns of my colleague from New Mexico regarding the challenges facing Americans in rural areas and those in need of nutrition assistance.
What is irresponsible, to those watching this debate, is the truth about the Biden-Harris policies, that when you combine irresponsible fiscal policy in this Nation over the past 4 years and an irresponsible monetary policy--what is irresponsible, Mr.
What he was saying was about the benefits of this bill and how they are all going to go to the wealthiest people in America, and I sat here wondering: Why? Why? Why would we pass a bill like that on the floor of the Senate when the American people have so, so many needs?
I appreciated the words of my colleague from Maryland because I was standing there thinking that a budget is actually a choice. It is a value choice. It is an economic voice of where you want to spend the taxpayers' hard-earned money.
I traveled to Ukraine shortly after, joined by colleagues in Congress from both parties. We were there to speak with our friends in Kyiv and to pledge our support for our ally, to reinforce in our own way our commitment to NATO's eastern flank and to uphold our obligations under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum.
And between what is about to happen to Medicaid, which supports so many folks: mothers and fathers, aunts and uncles in nursing homes; that supports so many folks: spouses, sisters when they give birth; that supports so many folks: family members who are in addiction recovery and are getting support from programs in Medicaid--when you kick out elderly…
This bill--and Trump and Musk's cruel agenda--isn't good for Massachusetts, and it isn't good for our country. I am hearing from families at home in Massachusetts who are feeling the pain right now.
The budget that we are debating really comes down to one simple idea: the massive transfer of wealth and resources from the poor and the middle class to the ultrawealthy.
I rise today to talk about the threats to the VA Administration and to our veterans, all in the name of finding $6 trillion in the couch cushions for President Trump's tax plan.
So colleagues across the aisle, let's have integrity in what this plan will do and at least be honest about what we tell the American people. The American people don't want the smoke and mirrors. They don't want the magic math gimmick.
I should be quite clear about what this is really about. This budget represents a Republican betrayal of the middle class, and I am proud to rise to oppose it.
Donald Trump is ruining the economy on purpose. He is ruining the economy on purpose. I am not sure if there has ever been an American President, let alone a Chief Executive of any country, that has ruined the economy on purpose.
Today, tonight, tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, Democrats will fight every which way against this vicious attack on American families where billionaires win and families lose.
He made a lot of other commitments that led me to vote for him, and that was a mistake for me, and I apologize to the people of Connecticut and the veterans of America for that error. But it was based on the commitments and the promises he made at the time, and one of them was to be accountable.
It was a little over 7 years ago, in December of 2017, that Republicans passed the single biggest priority of the first Trump administration. No, it wasn't record investment in our Nation's infrastructure that was promised almost on a weekly basis and never happened during the first Trump administration.
I rise tonight in strong opposition to this awful, and, frankly, immoral budget. Recently, I was appointed to the Finance Committee of the U.S. Senate, and the reason why I wanted to serve on that committee is because I wanted to get a chance to shape the Nation's budget.
Across Arizona, I am hearing from families who are doing everything right. They are working longer hours-- sometimes two or three jobs--budgeting carefully, trying to save for their families and their children's futures.
Expanding the number of healthcare providers in Nevada really has been a priority of mine. That is why I am leading legislation-- bipartisan legislation--with my colleague Senator Cassidy from Louisiana to support graduate medical education programs.
I come to the floor with my colleagues today to echo concerns about the budget process that is pursuing here related to a proposal that we will be voting on that I am not sure I understand the math.
On so-called ``Liberation Day'' this week, President Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on all of our trading partners--the size, the scope, and the impact of which have not been seen for nearly 100 years.
I represent a State that Donald Trump won in November. And one of the reasons he did was his promise on the campaign trail that he would lower costs for Nevada families.
This budget is disastrous for the American economy. It will balloon our deficits, lead to higher interest rates, and make the things Americans buy every day more expensive.
Well, we are back here again with another variation of the Trump plan and the Republican plan to do further damage to our economy and to the working men and women of this country.
Before she leaves the floor, let me thank Senator Klobuchar for her outstanding remarks. She and Senator Van Hollen have really made the case that we want a tax bill that gives everybody in America the chance to get ahead, not just the people at the top, and I want to commend her for it.
Before I deliver the body of my remarks, I do want to respond briefly to my colleague, the Senator from Wyoming, on the question of national security because just last night, we learned that President Trump had fired the head of the National Security Agency right after his meeting with Laura Loomer, a rightwing activist.
Medicaid also supports more than 43,000 elderly or disabled adults who receive long-term care at home in our community. That includes people like Tammy in Monona, WI, whose father Bud battled dementia at the end of his life.
I rise today in strong opposition to the reckless Republican budget, which is a betrayal of working-class Americans, middle-class Americans, children, seniors, and everyday Americans all across the country.
At this rate, in just a few weeks' time, the cost to build a home is going to go up. The cost to own a home is going to go up. The cost to rent a home is going to go up while we are in the midst of a housing crisis, all thanks to reckless policies of this administration with the support of my Republican colleagues.
I rise to join my colleagues--I really appreciate my colleague from Hawaii's leadership on this topic and the Senator from New Hampshire--to talk about the pending discussion about the budget reconciliation bill and the vote-arama that will start in a few hours.
I get a lot of questions from my constituents. Delawareans raise a lot of issues, whether they are stopping me at the Wawa, talking to me on the train, knocking on my door. They ask me about three things more than anything in the last few months.
Today, the other side is trying to pass I think what can only be called an extreme budget plan--very extreme--which is chock-full of bad ideas to help pay for their tax breaks, most of which are for the ultrawealthy.
I am really delighted to be here with my colleagues Senator Klobuchar and Senator Warnock. I know it is an incredibly important issue for all of America. It is not a red State, blue State situation.
Donald Trump's tariffs are the biggest tax increase on the middle class in this country in generations. Even with today's so- called pause announcement, he is still putting a 10 percent tax on food, on energy, and on essentials that Americans need, while keeping up with the high cost of living.
I submitted an amendment to this resolution to ask a simple question. Is it such a priority to fund tax cuts for individuals with over $1 billion in net worth that we would enact devastating cuts to healthcare for rural and low-income communities?
We have been talking about, I think, unfortunately, the myriad ways the Trump administration is undermining our security and, quite honestly, making Americans less safe.
Despite all the promises on the campaign trail, House Republicans have chosen to do three things with their majority: raise the cost of putting food on the table, raise the cost of getting healthcare, and use that money, deserving taxpayers' money, to cut billionaires' taxes. That is it. That is the agenda.
If the tax cuts that are proposed in this bill offer a few hundred dollars to people who live in the bottom half of our country, which is most of the people that I represent, the bottom half of incomes, the people at the top are going to get hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars back.
It was quite remarkable to go back home to New York's 20th District last week after spending 12 hours moving this monstrosity through the Budget Committee. Everywhere I went folks were imploring me, begging and pleading, to stand up to this cruelty.
Today, the economy has low unemployment and high interest rates. This is the exact wrong time to blow up the debt. This bill will add between $4 trillion and $11 trillion to the debt, which will increase interest rates, raise prices, and keep inflation high. Our kids are going to pick up the bill.
There is no reason why billionaires should be getting a massive tax cut. It is totally unnecessary. In the end, that is what this legislation is about, despite their protestations. It provides $1,700 for a family of four, but tens of millions of dollars for billionaires. That is where these tax cuts are going.
If Republicans pass this resolution today, we will be forced to cut a minimum of nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid, our Nation's largest healthcare program.
Indeed a vote for this budget is a vote against Medicaid, ripping away healthcare from children, people with disabilities, and seniors. It is a vote against SNAP, as the distinguished chairman indicated, taking food out of the mouths of babies.
In just 4 weeks, Donald Trump has sown chaos all over this country. His administration is defying court orders, firing Federal workers, freezing vital funding that our constituents depend on, impacting everything from wildfire preparations to water security, health and housing programs, and a lot more.
I rise in opposition to this budget. We know that a budget is a statement of values. In simple terms, you put your money where your mouth is. The money my Republican colleagues are getting right now is going to the class that they are beholden to, the uberwealthy.
Here is the deal: Republicans have the House, the Senate, and the White House. They could be passing legislation to actually make our lives better, to lower costs on groceries, on prescription drugs. They could be lowering the cost of housing.
I thought Republicans' plans were to make Americans' lives better. I thought we were supposed to lower the cost of goods. I thought we were supposed to make healthcare more affordable for Americans.
This is the Republican wreckonciliation because it makes a wreck of our Nation's finances and it makes a wreck of the lives of so many of our fellow Americans.
Let's be clear: My Republican colleagues will declare that this resolution is necessary to extending the 2017 Trump tax scam to purportedly help the middle class. This is a lie.
I strongly oppose the Republican budget rip-off. I hear from constituents every day about the high cost of living. Under the Trump administration, healthcare costs are rising, and putting food on the table is getting harder as egg prices skyrocket and housing remains unaffordable.
My neighbor, Tom Kean, has over 70,000 Medicaid recipients, including over 27,000 children. Does Congressman Van Drew from New Jersey know a vote for this budget means abandoning 177,000 of his residents for the billionaire class?
I rise to oppose this resolution that prioritizes tax cuts for billionaires over the well-being of hardworking American families and the livelihood of our Nation's farmers.
When I first read through this resolution, I thought surely it must be a mistake, there is no way that Republicans would intentionally hurt working Americans, right?
In fact, this budget bill that will be on the floor today will have enormous consequences. It will make America poorer, sicker, and hungrier. It will close hospitals and clinics. It will kick seniors out of nursing homes. It ends support for Americans with disabilities. It will double healthcare costs and more.
House Democrats came to Congress ready to work with our Republican colleagues to lower the cost of eggs, take on price gouging, expand the child tax credit, build more housing, and put the pocketbooks of working families first.
Social Security is under attack. Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and DOGE are revving up their chain saw and coming after America's earned Social Security benefits. They are cutting staff, slashing services, closing offices, and lying about the program.
I rise in opposition to the Republican budget resolution and urge my colleagues to reject it for what it is: a total scam and betrayal of the middle class.
I rise today in strong opposition to this budget resolution. As an Appropriations Committee member, thoughtful consideration of government spending is a responsibility I don't take lightly. I believe every hard-earned taxpayer dollar must work for all Americans, not fuel wildly irresponsible economic theory.
Representative Thomas Massie is a budget hawk who walks around with the debt clock--which, by the way, I bought. It is $99 on the website. Today, he talked about that if the Republican budget passes, the budget deficit doesn't get better. It gets worse.
My amendment would prevent the President from improperly using the national security exemption as a means to carve away workforce protections for Federal workers.
I rise today in support of the millions of Americans who rely on Medicaid for their caregivers and in support of those caregivers in whose arms we entrust those we love the most.
I rise in opposition to this resolution. It is, frankly, hard to take my colleagues on the other side of the aisle seriously when they come up here and give speech after speech complaining about the deficit, and then support this resolution that, what, increases the deficit.
I urge my colleagues to stand with the people. Protect families and reject this shameful budget resolution. In the words of a righteous faith leader whose place of worship Donald Trump recently attended: Have mercy.
I want you to imagine that a friend came over to you and said: Donald Trump taught me how to save 50 percent on my shoe purchases. All you have to do is cut off one leg.
This bill seeks to cut $3 trillion in spending, supposedly by targeting waste and fraud, but the entire domestic discretionary budget is only $917 billion, and that simply doesn't add up.
I rise in strong opposition to the House Republican budget resolution, a blatant attempt to strip healthcare and food aid away from everyday Americans.
I rise today in opposition to this rule which allows for consideration of the Republicans' extreme budget that slashes funding for vital programs like Medicaid, SNAP, and Federal housing assistance to bankroll $4.5 trillion in tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations.
Farmers operate on tight margins and cannot be left waiting for weeks and months without the funding they rightfully plan for and need to keep operating. I urge all of my colleagues to vote for this amendment to prohibit Trump's USDA from continuing to illegally withhold funding from our farmers.
I rise today to oppose this so-called budget resolution which is one of the greatest heists in American history as they loot the Treasury to give permanent tax breaks to billionaires at the expense of millions of Americans.
Let me let you in on a secret because there aren't any Republicans in this room. There are more Republican constituents of mine that are calling my office saying: We may have voted for Donald Trump, but we didn't vote for him to do this.
This budget is about the millionaires, the trillionaires, the people earning over $400,000 a year, and giving them a $4 trillion tax cut over the next 10 years. It is not about working people. It is about hurting working people, hurting the poor, hurting people with disabilities, and hurting children.
This amendment will reverse Elon Musk's cuts to the Social Security Administration. And before it is denied that this is happening, today, yet another mass firing was reported when service quality is already at a tailspin.
Our grandmothers and parents in nursing homes rely on Medicaid to pay their health bills. Their caregivers, who are mostly women, depend on Medicaid themselves.
I rise today not in favor or opposition. I rise in defense, defense of 811,000 Nevadans and countless people across the country whose lives are in danger.
I rise today in strong opposition to this Republican rip-off. This budget slashes $880 billion from Medicaid, putting 286,000 people in my district, including nearly 100,000 children, at risk of losing healthcare.
I rise today as the ranking member of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, the CCP, to express serious concerns about the proposed cuts in the Republicans' budget resolution.
I came to Congress to help my constituents. I came here to provide direct relief to struggling Americans and lift people up. This Republican budget does none of those things. It is nothing more than a blueprint for cruelty. This GOP budget will destroy Medicaid and take healthcare away from millions of Americans.
Well, it makes a bad situation much worse. This legislation--this budget--will make it much harder for seniors to receive the care they desperately need in nursing homes. In Vermont--and, I expect, in most States in this country--we have a major nursing home crisis. Nursing homes are shutting down.
Nobody is talking about raising the rates. The only question before us on this amendment is, Should the rates be cut for people making more than $1 billion a year?
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