Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ will lead to Medicare cuts: CBO

I take it you're in favor of the Golden Dome? I think what we have now--NORAD, monitoring systems, etc--are doing pretty well, as there is a noticeable lack of missile strikes on US territory. An expensive boondoggle, stamped with Trump's golden seal of approval.

 

How's about if we talk about cutting health insurance for seniors and the needy ....... before we do that, we take tax cuts for the rich off the table?

Oh yeah - because those are what the Trump wants.

 

Golden dome will enhance our defensive capabilities and work with NORAD. You’re thinking we should wait for a successful attack before enhancing our capabilities?

 

I think it's a new, shiny thing. We can't even support current infrastructure, and many facilities have computers decades out of date, but sure, throw billions at The Next Great Thing.

Upgrading the current system makes more sense to me.

 

Good point. But we actually need a Golden Double Dome. Why wait?

 

Trumpy says so.

 

So upgrade NORAD capabilities to do what exactly?

 

Those numbers are based on an aging population (more Medicare beneficiaries) and, I assume, expected inflation in healthcare costs. Either way, Trump said he wouldn't cut Medicare. This bill cuts Medicare.

 

NORAD isn’t the FAA that’s been neglected for decades. Golden Dome=the Reagan Star Wars non sense

 

At $175-200 BILLION ? And how much of that goes to our resident cost cutter Elon Musk?

 

So maga is cutting even more taxes, pouring Billions into the defense dept and offsetting it with Medicaid and some green energy cuts. Well , not really offsetting since the deficit is about to balloon by 3 Trillion per estimates by the cbo. Bizarre that folks bend over backwards to support this.

 

Anyone who supports this can never claim to be a conservative

 

Hate to break it to you but we crossed the 100% debt to gdp rubicon a while ago. Currently at 37T to 30T: U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time

 

I'll bet real money that the Senate forces more spending cuts to this bill... I would love to see them drop that SALT deductions down to as close to nothing as possible.

 

Wasn’t aware any contracts were awarded yet for this.

 

The CBO is FAKE NEWS... LIBERALS.

 

the left's argument that we will be cutting medicare is the usual scare tactic aimed at seniors. Just looking, at Oklahoma's post, if a budget item is supposed to rise by X amount, and a Pub Prez or a Pub Congress wants to reduce the amount of built in growth, the left cries foul and says look look they want to cut medicare, or SS.

We will NEVER balance the budget as long as we use baseline budgeting.