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Senate Democrat: GOP budget math 'as fake as Donald Trump's tan'
Trickle down economics do not work and tax cuts do NOT pay for themselves
Senate Democrat: GOP budget math ‘as fake as Donald Trump’s tan’
— Gary Schwall Sr. (@glschwall.bsky.social) 2025-06-30T23:05:17.340Z
Source: The Hill
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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5376461-senator-wyden-criticizes-budget-math/
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) blasted Senate Republicans for using a controversial accounting measure while seeking to advance President Trump’s massive domestic policy legislation, saying it relies on “fake” math.
“The only way for Republicans to pass this horribly destructive bill, which is based on budget math as fake as Donald Trump’s tan, was to go nuclear and hide it behind a bunch of procedural jargon,” Wyden, the top Democrat on the Finance Committee, said in a statement late Sunday.
“We’re now operating in a world where the filibuster applies to Democrats but not to Republicans, and that’s simply unsustainable given the triage that’ll be required whenever the Trump era finally ends,” he added.
Democrats have lashed out at Republicans for pressing forward with plans to advance their mammoth “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” using an accounting maneuver known as “current policy,” which scores the extension of the 2017 Trump tax cuts as not adding to the deficit.
The Congressional Budget Office considers the extension of the tax cuts, which expire at the end of this year, as adding to the deficit when using an alternative “current law” baseline.
“The only way for Republicans to pass this horribly destructive bill, which is based on budget math as fake as Donald Trump’s tan, was to go nuclear and hide it behind a bunch of procedural jargon,” Wyden, the top Democrat on the Finance Committee, said in a statement late Sunday.
“We’re now operating in a world where the filibuster applies to Democrats but not to Republicans, and that’s simply unsustainable given the triage that’ll be required whenever the Trump era finally ends,” he added.
Democrats have lashed out at Republicans for pressing forward with plans to advance their mammoth “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” using an accounting maneuver known as “current policy,” which scores the extension of the 2017 Trump tax cuts as not adding to the deficit.
The Congressional Budget Office considers the extension of the tax cuts, which expire at the end of this year, as adding to the deficit when using an alternative “current law” baseline.
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