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Republicans Throw in the Towel

By Bryan Berky | October 20, 2017

Republicans are in charge of Congress and are planning to pass their agenda using reconciliation – meaning they can pass a bill without any support from the minority party.  They had two options to move forward on reconciliation:

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  • A House plan that called for deficit neutral tax reform and $200 billion in spending cuts

  • A Senate plan that called for tax reform with a $1.5 trillion deficit increase

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Last night, Republican leadership quickly coalesced around the Senate plan, nixing the $200 billion in spending cuts and replacing it with $1.5 trillion in debt increases.  $200 billion in spending cuts over the next 10 years is one-275th of the $53.1 trillion in government spending over the next decade. For context of how miniscule that is, that would be the equivalent of:

  • A 275-pound man losing one pound

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  • Reducing the total run time of Game of Thrones by 33 minutes

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  • Changing Twitter’s new character limit from 280 to 279

  • Removing 4 pages from the Lord of the Rings series

  • Cutting a one week vacation short by 36 minutes

  • One-fifth of a single skittle out of a fun size bag

  • Cutting short Taylor Swift’s new song by .76 seconds

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Republicans, who have spent the last 10 years decrying spending and debt, when finally given an opportunity to do something about it, cannot even get an offensive lineman to shed a single pound. Actions speak louder than words.


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