The true extent of the confusion between the Trump White House and Republicans in Congress on Trump’s fiscal agenda came crashing out into the open this week.
Amid brutal intraparty tensions over how exactly they will enact sweeping cuts to Medicaid, far-right members of the House Republican conference jammed things up substantially this week when they demanded their own “big, beautiful” budget bill not add to the federal deficit. President Trump reportedly issued his own befuddling directive to Congress that complicates his initial push for an extension of his 2017 tax cuts, while Senate Republicans signaled they’re not sure how they feel about most aspects of the bill being cobbled together in the House.
But Republican handwringing over how to discreetly slash Medicaid remained the main hurdle.
