After gaveling in after 10 p.m. EDT Sunday, the House Budget Committee voted 17-16 to advance the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which would extend Trump’s tax cuts and boost his border funding priorities while reforming Medicaid and food assistance programs.
The four Republican holdouts who had tanked the vote Friday — Reps. Ralph Norman (S.C.), Chip Roy (Texas), Andrew Clyde (Ga.) and Josh Brecheen (Okla.) — voted present to allow the bill to go forward, with Roy revealing there was progress on moving up the start date for new Medicaid work requirements and speeding up the phaseout of green energy incentives.
The next stop is the House Rules Committee, which is set to take up the legislation later this week and make last-minute changes to the bill to reflect any compromises and demands between deficit hawks and moderates in high-tax states.
Roy said that while he voted present “out of respect for the Republican Conference and the President,” the bill “does not yet meet the moment.”
He said the revamped measure would “move Medicaid work requirements forward and reduces the availability of future subsidies under the green new scam.” But, in a statement on the social platform X, he objected to provisions around green energy tax credits and Medicaid.
The Hill’s Emily Brooks, Mike Lillis and Mychael Schnell have more here.
