Back here on planet earth, the CBO estimates:
Republicans’ sweeping policy bill aimed at advancing President Trump’s second-term agenda would increase the deficit by $2.4 trillion over the next decade, according to a new estimate prepared by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
The CBO also estimates that 10.9 million more people would be without health insurance in 2034 as the result of the House-passed legislation, mostly due to cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act under the bill.
House Republicans are aiming to cut at least $1.5 trillion in spending to offset trillions in tax cuts, while also raising the debt ceiling by $4 trillion. The CBO projection puts the spending cuts at about $1.2 trillion over the next decade, with the tax cuts totaling just under $3.7 trillion.
It’s the tax cuts. If they really cared about the deficit they could raise taxes on the top 10%. But that’s the devil’s work so they’re reduced to just lying. It’s all fine with them because they really don’t care about anything but destroying the government as we know it so they can recreate it in their image. Both Johnson and Vought are far right theocrats, most of the rest are mega-rich bozos on auto-pilot and MAGA clones walking over whatever cliff Dear Leader designates.