Senate GOPs blueprint for Trumps big, beautiful agenda includes tax cuts, border security and more heres whats inside

Senate Republicans are poised to kick off the voting process for advancing the blueprint on President Trump’s “big, beautiful” agenda package on tax cuts, border security, energy production and more later Thursday evening.The final vote on whether or not to adopt the measure is expected to take place on Saturday, and afterward, House Republicans will attempt to move it through the lower chamber next week.Once all of that is completed, Republicans will finally unlock the Senate reconciliation process, which is the avenue they need to circumvent a Democratic filibuster to pass Trump’s marquee agenda package.The blueprint, which is known as a budget resolution, provides a rough outline of the legislation Republicans are eyeing in the final agenda package, which they hope to get over the finish line by the end of May.Here’s what it calls for:Technically, the Senate blueprint allows up to $350 billion for border security (giving $175 billion each to the Senate Homeland Security Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee to figure out).

But a Senate spokesperson told The Post that while the two committees, which both have jurisdiction over the border, will each be given room to spend $175 billion apiece under the budget resolution — that’s only meant to give lawmakers “flexibility.” The “target number is $175 billion total” for the border.While the overall goal is about $346 billion of new spending over the next decade between defense, the border and other items, the blueprint allows for almost $500 billion in new spending.On taxes, the Senate is attempting to deploy an unusual accounting trick to make Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent.

In the Senate reconciliation process, measures can’t increase the deficit past a 10-year window, due to the Byrd Rule.But Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) would get the power to tamper with the baseline used to measure the bill’s impact on the deficit.*Cost estimates provided by Congressional...