Some other changes the Senate made to the budget bill haven’t yet been noted here.
The child credit, which the House raised from $2,000 to $2,500 per child, gets pared back to $2,200 — something the Senate did even while expanding the overall size of the bill. In inflation-adjusted terms, that’s below the value of the parental tax relief that we had in 2004 or 2018. All the hype about how Republicans have adopted a much more pro-family economics turned out to be just that.
The Crenshaw amendment to ban Medicaid from funding gender-transition for minors is eliminated.
The defunding of Planned Parenthood is made a one-year suspension (probably because of the reconciliation rules).
But (as my colleagues have noted) senior citizens get a bigger, albeit complicated, tax break than the one in the House bill.
Younger generations also, of course, receive a larger federal debt.