House Republicans notched a major legislative victory this week when they passed their budget resolution. Now comes the hard part: Crafting a fiscal package that doesn't doom them in the 2026 election.
After the vote, some vulnerable Republicans were quick to distance themselves from the notion that the budget measure does anything more than provide a conceptual framework for the final bill.
Republicans have been barraged the last week and a half by angry constituents at town halls and protests outside their district offices complaining about DOGE's layoffs and cuts to federal programs.
While DOGE has been the primary target of that voter blowback, House Republicans say they have also faced plenty of flack over the prospective benefit cuts in the GOP's fiscal package.
Despite voting for the budget measure, moderate and swing-district House Republicans told Axios they are drawing clear red lines on what they will support in a final package.
Conservatives are equally emphatic the bill must include substantial enough cuts to Medicaid to offset the increases in spending — creating a seemingly unworkable dilemma for Johnson.
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Not entirely on topic, but speaking of the debt crisis- what will be done in the future after republicans make it worse. What can be done even 4 years from now? Assuming worst case scenario, what would happen? How big of a threat is this?
We’re really grading on a curve when passing a budget resolution in one chamber is noted by the media as a major win.
>allows $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, offset by $2 trillion in spending cuts
I love politician math
Have they tried not building a 2026 time bomb with their budget?
They are betting ok TikTok, Twitter and Meta shifting public opinion so the democrats never win again.
It could come back to bite them even earlier than 2026.
Losing just a single special election for the House this year would make it hard for the Republicans slim majority to even function.
The problem is Republicans are doing Year 2 things in Month 2. I can’t even begin to think of a way to twist cutting benefits into something that’ll be easy to swallow for conservative constituents and voters. I mean you just spent the last 10 months convincing everyone that what you’re doing now was all Democrat hysteria. Republicans are gonna gaslight the FUCK out of their base, watch.
They can’t ride the “Biden left us this mess, we had to do it!” train forever.
Tax cuts start immediately, budget cuts start November 6th 2026.