Tax Cuts, Work Mandates, and the Debt Spiral: Inside the Senate’s Massive New Spending Bill

The U.S. Senate, in a pre-dawn display of procedural theater, advanced President Donald Trump’s flagship legislation—a sprawling 1,300-page behemoth that simultaneously cuts taxes and hikes spending to levels even deficit hawks of a bygone era would have denounced. Senate Republicans are heralding the bill as the saving grace that spares working families from a scheduled 22% tax increase while “modernizing” the nation’s security apparatus. Yet the package, passed amid marathon sessions of wrangling and horse-trading, betrays the same corrosive pattern that has defined Washington for decades: a toxic addiction to debt and central control. Tax Cuts and Temporary Relief At the bill’s core is an extension of Trump’s 2017 tax reforms—delaying tax hikes that were slated to slam households by…