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House Republicans pass budget framework to begin work on Trump’s congressional agenda

PBS News Hour - Segments

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🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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In a dramatic vote, House Republicans passed a $5 trillion budget framework that kick starts the process for President Trump’s agenda on Capitol Hill. It came less than a day after hard-line conservatives refused to support it. Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardins reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

In a dramatic vote, House Republicans today passed a $5 trillion budget framework that kickstarts

0:06.9

the process for President Trump's agenda on Capitol Hill. This, less than a day after hardline

0:12.5

conservatives refused to support it. Our congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardin joins me now

0:17.5

to explain. So Lisa, this was a hard one vote. Let's talk about that in a second.

0:21.6

But first, walk us through the framework of this bill. What does it mean potentially?

0:25.8

That's right. This is not just a framework. This is the framework for the Trump agenda in Congress.

0:31.4

It's how his key promises. If they get, if they get passed, it will be because of this. So let's take a

0:36.4

reminder of what this bill outlines exactly.

0:38.7

First, this would be tax cuts of up to $5.3 trillion, including extending Trump's first-term

0:44.5

tax cuts, spending cuts, significant ones, but that is still to be determined how much.

0:49.5

This would increase the debt ceiling, likely through the end of next year.

0:53.4

Now, it's interesting, Omna, today the Congressional Budget Office came out and said the kinds

0:57.5

of tax cuts that this allows, it could add an additional $6 trillion to the deficit, depending

1:03.3

on what else is in this bill.

1:05.1

Speaker Johnson and Republicans want to get this done now because it is the first step.

1:10.3

They want to get to the second step,

1:11.8

the detailed bill by summer. There are political reasons for that, but there are more than that.

1:16.5

There are also some economic ones, too.

1:18.7

We know that the debt limit cliff is approaching us pretty quickly here. We know that markets

1:24.1

have been a little unstable. They want to know that Congress is on the job.

1:27.8

And I'm here to tell you that we are, the Article I branch of this government, that the U.S.

1:32.7

House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate are going to do our job.

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