The two parties were set to make their cases Tuesday to the Senate parliamentarian, the chamber’s nonpartisan rules referee, ahead of a potential ruling on Republicans’ bid to declare that extensions of President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax law should not be counted as deficit spending. “If we want to go to a world in which you throw all fiscal responsibility to the wind, then the Republican strategy is the way to do it,” Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon, the top Democrat on the Budget Committee, told Semafor on Tuesday. While it seems wonky, the fight could resonate for years to come: The GOP’s push to make the Trump tax cuts permanent could further erode Senate constraints on party-line legislating and potentially absolve Congress from working with a 10-year budget window for major bills.
Author: Burgess Everett
Published at: 2025-04-01 21:57:09
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