Hello, everyone. It's JVL here with my best friends, Sarah Longwell and Tim Miller of the bulwark.

Guys, we had a big budget vote last night with lots of drama, and I don't understand it at all.

I don't understand why it's important or what's going on.

Can one of you explain this to me?

Because this wasn't the budget. I hope it's 10. Was Sarah not awake during our prep meeting?

Okay. Neither of you guys wanted to talk about this. I got it. I got it. I'll just carry everybody on this one.

Here is, I think, why this matters.

It is important to say that to this budget, because I saw a lot of people getting this wrong on the internet yesterday, this budget has no force of law.

It does not do anything, actually.

It only allows, it only gives the House Republicans now a framework with which to pursue their reconciliation agenda.

So not to be too dorky, but essentially what it does is like, here is our framework, right?

Which is we're going to cut X amount.

This is why people are focused on the Medicaid because it doesn't actually say you're going to cut Medicaid, but it says you're going to cut $800,000, $800,000 billion under the HHS rubric.

Everybody assumes that ends up being Medicaid.

We're going to cut taxes X amount, $3.5 trillion.

So like that is what it does.

It's like it sets up the framework for the budget for then, you know, what the government funding plan and the tax plan and the conciliation bill that they're actually going to put forward. And so, you know, I mean, I think that there is some important fighting going on, right? Because there are going to be some Republicans who are like, I don't actually care that much about these cuts. I just want the tax cuts. There's some that are like, I'm still a budget hawk. There's Chip Roy. Right. So like that is the wrangling.

Who think it's not enough? Who think like right now the framework doesn't include enough cuts? the haggling was over, right? And, you know, Massey, the one Republican that ends up voting against

it is just like, this adds trillions to the deficit, to the debt, right? And so that's why he votes

against it. And so, and then there are people on the other side, as always, like, the moderates,

you know, the non, you know, ideological mega rightists, the ones who like actually want

to be responsive to their constituents who are

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