When the House passed the Republican budget framework last night, it was an important step towards implementing President Trump's agenda.

The House budget plan includes $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, spending cuts totaling $1.5 to $2 trillion, and will add an estimated $3 trillion to the national debt over the next 10 years.

Congressman Jody Arrington of Texas chairs the Budget Committee, and he joins me now.

Chairman Erring, welcome to the NewsHour. Thanks for joining us.

Thank you, Omna. Good to be with you.

So, as you know, the bill passed on a 217 to 215 vote.

You had one Republican joining Democrats to vote against it.

Is it fair to say now that the real work begins of trying to figure out exactly where

you're going to get those two trillion dollars in cuts?

Yeah, I think you're right.

I mean, we had to lay out a framework that I think was fiscally responsible, pro-growth.

It makes adjustments for supporting the tax cuts while

reining in the wasteful spending to offset those cuts along with revenue rather from growth,

which is a conservative 2.6% annual average growth rate, which is lower than we had in

the Trump and Biden administrations, but that'll bring another $2.6 trillion in. So altogether,

it's a balanced budget resolution, but as you mentioned, the real work happens as the policies

are developed at the committee level,

and it's designed that way to be kind of a bottom-up approach, and then we'll, of course,

have to conference with the Senate.

As you know, there's been a lot of concern about cuts to Medicaid.

The mandate that you've set for the Energy and Commerce Committee that oversees Medicaid

is for them to cut $880 billion.

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