https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2025\/megabill-cost-trump-2017-tax-cuts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Congressional Republicans really like the 2017 Trump tax cuts. It\u2019s why the \u201cbig, beautiful bill\u201d costs so much.<\/p>\n
The decision to either extend those cuts or make them permanent before their year-end expiration date was the driving force behind the original, $2.4 trillion price tag of the House-passed megabill. Then the Senate GOP went even further, deepening the financial impact of the vast domestic policy package.<\/p>\n
That exacerbated the string of intraparty fights that consumed Republicans for weeks. Even as different factions squared off over issues such as slashing Medicaid \u2014 hundreds of billions here, tens of billions there \u2014 the extension of the 2017 tax cuts had already set the table. In the end, the Senate added another $1 trillion to the price tag.<\/p>\n
Detailed final estimates from Congress\u2019 scorekeeper haven\u2019t yet been released, but the overall picture is clear: The cost of President Donald Trump\u2019s signature tax and spending legislation was inflated by the desire to extend the tax cuts from his first administration. Other political fights shifted the price tag from there, but there was not much the staunchest deficit hawks could do but chip away at the margins.”<\/p>\n
Where is the Tea Party!?<\/p>\n
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