Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ heads for next House hurdle
President Trump’s bill of legislative priorities advanced out of the House Budget Committee in an unusual late-night vote Sunday, but conservatives have signaled more work is needed as a key panel prepares to take up the package before it can head to the floor.
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 JoshBrecheen (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.
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Senate Republicans say the House-drafted bill to enact President Trump’s legislative agenda has “problems” and are taking a second look at breaking it up into smaller pieces in hopes of getting the president’s less controversial priorities enacted into law before the fall.
Even if Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) manages to squeak Trump’s agenda through the House, it faces major obstacles in the Senate, where moderate Republicans say they oppose proposed cuts to Medicaid and fiscal conservatives say it doesn’t go nearly far enough in cutting the deficit.
Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” suffered a setback Friday when a group of fiscal hawks on the House Budget Committee voted against advancing it out of committee. That forced the Budget Committee to convene again at 10 p.m. EDT Sunday in a scramble to get the legislation moving and meet a self-imposed Memorial Day deadline for winning House approval of the legislation.
The Speaker insists the bill is still on track, but a group of Senate Republicans are growing increasingly doubtful about his plan.
Several Republican senators say the best way to jump-start the stalled bill would be to break it up into two or three pieces and pass the elements of Trump’s agenda that have the most support in Congress first.
The House Rules Committee is set to meet Wednesday at 1 a.m. ET on President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” as Republicans move quickly to move the sprawling tax and spending cuts plan across the floor.
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