'Bad options': New battle ahead in Congress presents 'nightmare' challenge for Trump

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61% : "Scholtes adds, "Of the roughly $4 trillion the U.S. government spends on mandatory programs each year, Social Security benefits alone total almost $1.5 trillion.
49% : READ MORE: Georgia AG wants Trump administration to restrain rising migrant farm worker payIn an article published on the penultimate day of 2024, Scholtes explains, "GOP leaders are staring down two bad options to solve President-elect Donald Trump's debt-limit problem, after failing to execute his demand to lift the federal borrowing cap in the last government funding bill.
44% : "Trump has ruled out reductions to Social Security and Medicare, the costliest of the programs.
25% : "READ MORE: Nearly 200 WI ballots mysteriously went uncounted on Election Day -- officials still don't know whyTrump favors extending the corporate tax cuts of 2017, which Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut believes could hurt Republicans if they also push for Social Security and Medicare cuts.
21% : Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) voted "no" on one of the spending bills that Trump supported, and Trump angrily responded by calling for a primary challenge to the arch-conservative Texan.
20% : The United States avoided a federal government shutdown by passing a three-month stopgap spending bill that Trump opposed.
18% : Donald Trump with House Speaker Mike Johnson and others on December 14, 2024 (Wikimedia Commons)The recent spending battle in Congress found President-elect Donald Trump at odds with some of the Tea Party firebrands and budget hawks in his party.
18% : Trump urged lawmakers to "get rid of" the debt ceiling, which some of the Tea Party budget hawks adamantly oppose.
18% : "The debt ceiling, Scholtes emphasizes, will be "an urgent issue for Trump as soon as he takes office.

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