<h1>Current policy baseline approach could let GOP treat existing tax cuts as non new, easing passage of expanded tax package.</h1> Senate Republicans are advancing a budget framework to enable consideration of expanded tax breaks by adopting a current policy baseline that treats existing tax cuts as the status quo so they need not be offset; only new tax proposals would carry new costs. Leaders plan to pass the resolution through the budget process, including a vote a rama, set lower negotiable spending cut floors than the House demands, and resolve details later while facing Democratic objections that the approach obscures fiscal impacts.