{"id":7652,"date":"2025-03-25T16:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-tells-senate-gop-he-wants-a-debt-limit-increase-in-his-tax-bill\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T16:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:53:09","slug":"trump-tells-senate-gop-he-wants-a-debt-limit-increase-in-his-tax-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-tells-senate-gop-he-wants-a-debt-limit-increase-in-his-tax-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tells Senate GOP he wants a debt limit increase in his tax bill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso<\/a> told reporters Tuesday that Donald Trump wants the debt ceiling dealt with as part of a party-line package to enact the president\u2019s sweeping domestic agenda.<\/p>\n

The issue, according to Barrasso, came up during a meeting earlier this month when Senate Finance Committee Republicans visited the White House to discuss the path forward for the \u201cone big, beautiful bill\u201d that Trump is envisioning to link an overhaul of the tax code to border, energy and defense policies.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’ve discussed that with the President … at the White House. He’s called for including it as part of the reconciliation bill,\u201d said Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican who is also a member of the Finance Committee.<\/p>\n

The topic is due to come up again later Tuesday afternoon, when Senate Majority Leader John Thune<\/a>, Speaker Mike Johnson<\/a> and the top congressional tax writers head back to the White House to meet with Trump administration officials about the reconciliation bill and how to harmonize the House-approved budget blueprint \u2014 which would include a debt limit hike \u2014 with the Senate\u2019s \u2014 which is silent on the matter. <\/p>\n

Barrasso, asked if he thinks some of his colleagues will advocate for or against its inclusion, demurred: \u201cEvery member will speak for himself,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Yet even as Trump has signaled privately that he wants a hike of the debt limit inserted into a reconciliation package \u2014 which would let him avoid having to make a deal with Democrats to avoid a catastrophic default in the coming months \u2014 congressional Republicans remain unsure if they\u2019ll have the votes to include the policy in the bill. Some Senate conservatives have also warned against including it or cautioned they would need to see steep spending cuts to other government programs as a condition of supporting its inclusion.<\/p>\n

Time could be running out to come up with a strategy. Congress\u2019 nonpartisan scorekeeper, the Congressional Budget Office, plans to release its debt limit forecast Wednesday. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who will take part in Tuesday\u2019s White House meeting, has told lawmakers he plans to send his own projection in the first half of May for when the nation will surpass its borrowing authority.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso told reporters Tuesday that Donald Trump wants the debt ceiling dealt with as part of a party-line package to enact the president\u2019s sweeping domestic agenda. The issue, according to Barrasso, came up during a meeting earlier this month when Senate Finance Committee Republicans visited the White House to discuss the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}