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“It’s a significant risk,” Mark Zandi, the chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, told me. Enacting Trump’s agenda would probably be a “corrosive event” rather than an immediate disaster, he said, but “there is a reasonable probability that we go over the cliff.”

#inflation #economy #budgetresolution #gopbudget #tradewar #tariffs

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“The #GOP stands virtually no chance of stabilizing the nation’s finances, the Republican economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin told me. The only question, he said, is “how much worse will it be when they’re done?””

#economy #inflation #tradewar #tariffs #budgetresolution

Shout out to the Senate Democrats for literally doing the bare minimum 👌

It should go without saying that you don't give fascists any votes for their fascist agenda

The number for the Capitol Hill switchboard is (202) 224-3121

If you live in a Democratic district/state call your Reps and tell them to hold their nerve and shut this shit down!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/12/schumer-republican-funding-bill-shutdown

#shutdown #FuckFascism #Resist #USpol #budget #BudgetResolution

Schumer says no to Republican funding bill as US shutdown risk intensifies

Senate minority leader says Democrats will not provide votes for stopgap measure and calls for bipartisan effort

The Guardian
#CR #BudgetResolution "The Republican rule providing for floor consideration of the government funding bill (the “CR”) contains a provision that would remove the expedited consideration of a recently introduced House resolution to terminate Trump’s February 1 national emergency declaration that provided the legal basis for these tariffs."
https://beyer.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=6432
Beyer And DelBene Blast Republicans’ Hidden Tariff Provision

U.S. Representative Don Beyer
US Treasury Secretary Scott Besent commits to making Trump-era tax cuts permanent, as House passes budget resolution extending TCJA amid expectations for increased consumption and investment.
#YonhapInfomax #USTreasury #TaxCuts #TrumpPolicy #BudgetResolution #TCJA #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=52343
US Treasury - 'Efforts to Make Trump's Tax Cuts Permanent Policy'

US Treasury Secretary Scott Besent commits to making Trump-era tax cuts permanent, as House passes budget resolution extending TCJA amid expectations for increased consumption and investment.

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Via #TheHill @ 7:32pm ET on Feb 25, 2025

#HouseGOP leaders pulled their #BudgetResolution from the floor at the last minute Tuesday evening after they were unable to win over a handful of #Conservative #FiscalHawks who threatened to tank the framework for President #Trump’s ambitious legislative agenda.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5164168-house-gop-leaders-pull-budget-resolution/