The GOP’s legislative agenda—deficit-swelling tax cuts for billionaires, paid for by slashing services for students, educators, and families—inched forward last week. In a narrow, near party-line vote, the House adopted a budget framework identical to that passed by the Senate. Now comes the truly hard part: Senate and House Republicans must agree on which programs to […]

  In an effort to fulfill the administration’s wish for a single, large, filibuster-proof bill, the Senate passed a revised budget framework that provides more tax breaks to billionaires by taking from everyone else—especially students, educators, and working families. Despite GOP claims to the contrary, the numbers show that a big share of those spending […]

  There’s still a lot of work to be done on reconciliation, the vehicle for the GOP’s legislative agenda: tax cuts for billionaires, paid for by everyone else. In keeping with the start of baseball season, an apt analogy is that the second inning has just begun. The Senate and House GOP are far apart […]