Republicans split on spending cuts, Medicaid as they seek path forward on Trump tax cuts

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Congressional Republicans, under pressure to move forward on President Donald Trump's tax cut and border security agenda, are at odds over how much spending they can cut from the federal budget without leaving constituents who rely on social safety net programs out in the cold.

Senate Republicans have been locked in closed-door debates about whether to overhaul the Medicaid health insurance program for low-income Americans to help pay for extending Trump's $4.6 trillion in 2017 tax cuts and other tax proposals, the mass deportation of unauthorized immigrants and a boost in military spending.

A main question for Republican senators is whether they can meet or exceed the $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion in spending cuts over the next decade laid out in the budget blueprint for the Trump agenda that squeaked through the Republican-controlled House of Representatives last month.

"We have a lot of people who would like to go a lot farther, some who would like not to go that far," Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota told reporters.

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[Easterncedar]

1. Got a rethuglican senator?

Call, write! Help divide them!

[NameAlreadyTaken]

2. Infighting!

Love it.

[Pinback]

3. "If we could just find a way to screw only poor people of color...."

Quite the conundrum!

[flamingdem]

4. What frickin' path forward?

I'm worried about the maneuvers they'll pull off to justify ballooning the deficit for tax cuts.

[Canada Kid]

5. NOW THEY WAKE UP??

A bunch of Republican senators are only now realizing that the poor people in their state who actually voted for them are now going to turn on them as their medicaid and social security gets pulled out from under them. How could they campaign in all honesty fully knowing that the outcome for their population, already an economically depressed state with all kinds of social difficulties, would suffer an even worse fate under a Trump/Musk slash and burn mandate? Oh! That's easy!. You just don't give a damn! Just get yourself re-elected to another term with all the cushy accoutrements and enjoy the ride, and to hell with everyone that you are supposed to be responsible for.