San Francisco’s Congresswoman, Nancy Pelosi, is leading the fight against President Trump’s budget plan.
House Republicans are trying to push through that spending blueprint, which could slash Medicaid and SNAP to pay for trillions of dollars in tax cuts. It’s an early test of President Trump’s political clout, and the Democrats’ ability to thwart the Trump agenda, with Speaker Mike Johnson trying to hold his narrow majority in line and prevent any defections.
The budget the president wants calls for cutting two trillion dollars in spending, and more than half of it would have to come from Medicaid and the food stamp program SNAP. It also cuts four trillion dollars in taxes, with half of that going to the richest 5% of Americans. That is not a recipe for deficit or debt reduction, which has some hard line conservative Republicans unhappy, and those proposed cuts to Medicaid also worry some Republicans from more moderate districts who fear they could lose their seats in next year’s elections.
Democrats are trying to peel off just a few of those Republicans to defeat the bill and keep the GOP majority from using the budget reconciliation process to pass this legislation, and Speaker Emerita Pelosi took the floor today to try to rally opposition and hand the president a key legislative defeat.
