Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“Congress is back in action. OK, that might be overstating it. In Donald Trump’s first 98 days in office, only five bills have been signed into law, amid a flurry of presidentially directed actions. Outside of shouting matches at hearings, Congress has gone into hibernation so far in 2025. That theoretically ends this week, as markups begin for the ‘one big beautiful bill’ in the House of Representatives. That’s the vehicle to permanently extend the 2017 Trump tax cuts, layer on a bunch of other tax cuts Trump proposed in the 2024 campaign, boost spending on border operations and the military, and offset at least some of this with potentially trillions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, food aid, student loan programs, clean-energy incentives, and more. DOGE was the unfunny opening act; this is the main event, the entire Trump legislative agenda rolled into one bill.” (04/28/25)
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-04-28-trumps-agenda-still-undecided/