McGovern using Arrington’s own statements against him: Here we are with a final bill that does something you called a nonstarter, violates your core principles and doesn't meet what you called the minimum standard for your support, have your core principles changed since April?

@AntiToxicPeople Republican core principles change from moment-to-opportunity.

The Senate's budget resolution falls short of the House's $1.5 trillion deficit reduction target, a gap that undermines fiscal discipline. While procedural necessity drove the vote, the real failure lies in Washington's addiction to half-measures. The House version demanded structural reforms—block-granting Medicaid, ending cost-plus defense contracts, and automatic spending caps. The Senate's $4B cut is a rounding error against $2.4T deficits. This isn't about changed principles—it's about systemic rot. The reconciliation process now becomes the battleground to force real cuts, not performative scraps. If committees can't deliver $880B from Medicaid waste and $230B from farm subsidies, the entire exercise proves DC's incapacity for meaningful reform.