Trump Middle East 2025, Qatar Jet, Debt Limit Bill, Tax Cuts, Deficit Concerns

Pres­i­dent Trump’s 2025 Mid­dle East trip to Sau­di Ara­bia, Qatar, and the UAE—repeating his first term’s ini­tial for­eign visit—focuses on secur­ing over $1 tril­lion in invest­ments. Qatar’s offer of a $400 mil­lion Boe­ing 747 for Air Force One, amid Boeing’s delays, faces eth­i­cal scruti­ny and oppo­si­tion from BKP, cit­ing cor­rup­tion con­cerns. The 390-page “big beau­ti­ful bill” rais­es the debt lim­it and pro­pos­es tax cuts, but BKP rejects it, demand­ing per­ma­nent tax cuts, no tax­es on tips or Social Secu­ri­ty, and auto loan inter­est deduc­tions. Con­ser­v­a­tives, wary of deficit spend­ing, crit­i­cize the bill’s lack of fis­cal restraint, recall­ing oppo­si­tion to omnibus bills under Boehn­er, Ryan, and McCarthy. A deficit-neu­tral bill is urged to sus­tain the $36 tril­lion nation­al debt, with only one rec­on­cil­i­a­tion bill allowed to bypass a 60-vote Sen­ate thresh­old. Lob­by­ists heav­i­ly influ­ence appro­pri­a­tions, under­min­ing the process. Trump’s trip, accom­pa­nied by fig­ures like Elon Musk, aims to boost U.S. exports and reset glob­al trade, while air­port delay reports raise sus­pi­cions of sab­o­tage tied to Biden’s $25 bil­lion infra­struc­ture law.

• Trump is in Sau­di Ara­bia. The three wealth­i­est coun­tries in the world: Sau­di Ara­bia, Qatar, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates. This is the first trip he took in his first admin­is­tra­tion. 
• Qatar gives the US Depart­ment of Defense a free jet. Boe­ing is behind sched­ule in pro­duc­ing a plane for the Air Force One fleet. BKP is a no on the free plane enter­ing the Air Force One fleet. 
• The big beau­ti­ful bill is 390+ pages, BKP is a no. tax cuts need to be per­ma­nent, no tax on tips, on social secu­ri­ty, deduc­tion on auto loan inter­est. In real­i­ty if we don’t cut deficit spend­ing we would not be able to sus­tain the debt any longer. We need a deficit neu­tral bill. As con­ser­v­a­tives, we didn’t like any­thing about the omnibus bill that Boehn­er put togeth­er or the omnibus bill that Paul Ryan put togeth­er and Kevin McCarthy did the same thing. We have been promised 12 appro­pri­a­tion bills. It doesn’t go out the win­dow because it is Don­ald Trump. What they are doing in this bill right now is rais­ing the debt lim­it, tax cuts. Now you can only do one rec­on­cil­i­a­tion bill, where it doesn’t take 60 sen­a­tors to pass. What they are telling you is they will not get it through if it doesn’t go through rec­on­cil­i­a­tion. The democ­rats can get a bill pushed out the win­dow in a flash but repub­li­cans can’t. In con­gress the house of rep­re­sen­ta­tives spends the mon­ey. All the house mem­bers are in these appro­pri­a­tions com­mit­tees. It is a dis­as­ter on how they appro­pri­ate these bills. The lob­by­ists are like the bugs that are crawl­ing all over these appro­pri­a­tion com­mit­tees. The lob­by­ist makes the changes.