House Republicans are beginning to fill in the details of their sweeping spending plan that hinges on deep cuts to programs people depend on — from Medicare and Medicaid to food assistance and clean energy investments — all to fund a $4.5 trillion tax break for billionaires and big corporations. Their proposal is a slash-and-burn blueprint for enacting President Trump’s extreme agenda, and it will throw American industries and families into chaos.

This week, some Republicans warned that repealing clean energy investments would drive up consumer energy bills, kill manufacturing jobs and generally be a disaster for businesses in their districts. But House Speaker Mike Johnson has been blunt about Republicans’ priorities, admitting that paying for their multitrillion-dollar tax cut would require taking “somewhere between a scalpel and a sledgehammer” to climate........

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