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13252870, Well, this is kind of a separate discussion but they passed it ...
Posted by Brew, Tue Apr-24-18 02:40 PM
... by lying about spending cuts. They *want* to subsequently cut spending on SS, Medicare, welfare, etc ... they just lied about those intentions in the tax bill and pursued that stuff after it passed, and buried it in the tax bill.

Edit for links:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/18/16741730/gop-agenda-medicare-social-security

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/opinion/republican-tax-bill-senate-house.html

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/tax-bill-2017/card/1510696375


>But this time around Republicans said forgot the old playbook.
>They won't even whisper about spending cuts of any kind