Apep talk by Trump to the House Republicans to narrow the differences on the tax bill
Democrat-Labeled “Trump’s Bill Advances in Rare Weekend Vote as House Conservatives Negotiates Changes”
Democrats are overwhelmingly opposed to the measure, which Republicans have labeled “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act.” Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., called it, “one big, beautiful betrayal” in Friday’s hearing.
“It’s terrible, and I think the American people know that,” Clyburn said. “There is nothing wrong with us bringing the government in balance. But there is a problem when that balance comes on the back of working men and women. That’s what is happening here.
Johnson mentioned that the package that they will send will be carefully negotiated and delicately balanced and they hope that they don’t make many changes to it.
If the bill passes the House this week, it would go to the Senate, where changes that could make final passage difficult in the House can be made.
According to Rep. Nick Lalotoma, one of the New York lawmakers leading the effort to lift the cap, they have proposed a deduction for single filers and a maximum deduction for joint filers.
The New Year’s Work Requirements for the Department of Energy and Workforces in the U.S. House of Representatives
Johnson is not just having to address the concerns of the deficit hawks in his party. He’s also facing pressure from centrists who will be warily eyeing the proposed changes to Medicaid, food assistance programs and the rolling back of clean energy tax credits. Republican lawmakers from New York and elsewhere are also demanding a much large state and local tax deduction.
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan fiscal watchdog group, estimates that the House bill is shaping up to add roughly $3.3 trillion to the debt over the next decade.
Tax reductions from the first term of Trump’s presidency will be extended and new ones added, including no tax on tips, overtime and Social Security. The bill has been increased by these cuts.
Roy said on X that the bill will move Medicaid work requirements forward and reduce future subsidies under the green energy tax breaks from the Inflation Reduction Act. The bill doesn’t yet meet the moment, and he warned that more changes were needed.
On friday, Roy was joined by a few other people, such as Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma and Andrew Clyde of Georgia. Lloyd Smucker switched his vote to no in order to have it reconsidered later.
Johnson said the start date for the work requirements was designed to give states time to “retool their systems” and to “make sure that all the new laws and all the new safeguards that we’re placing can actually be enforced.”
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, explains how Congress is pushing back on a $Measures of the State of the Art”
“We are writing checks we cannot cash, and our children are going to pay the price,” said Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, a member of the committee. “Something needs to change, or you’re not going to get my support.”
During a rare Sunday night vote in the House of Representatives, Republicans moved their massive tax cut and border security package out of a key committee because of progress in negotiations on the package’s spending cuts.
Speaker Mike Johnson met with Republican lawmakers shortly before the meeting and told reporters that some changes had been agreed to, but he did not offer specifics. He said they were just minor modifications. Not a big deal.
Democrats on the panel pressed for more details. The bill remained under negotiations, according to the chairman of the House Budget Committee.
Four conservatives voted present in order to advance the bill by a vote of 17-16 after they voiced concerns about its impact on the deficit.
He told “Fox News Sunday” that this is the vehicle through which they will deliver on the mandate given to them in the last election.
The first time that Republicans tried advancing the bill out of the House Budget Committee last week, the deficit hawks joined with Democratic lawmakers in voting against reporting the measure to the full House.
The Republicans criticizing the measure noted that the bill’s new spending and the tax cuts are front-loaded in the bill, while the measures to offset the cost are back-loaded. They are looking to speed up the new work requirements that Republicans want to enact for able-bodied participants in Medicaid. The requirements wouldn’t kick in until 2029 under the current bill.
House Republicans a ‘pep talk’ to close divides on massive tax bill: The first two days of the new legislative session concluded with a “unified” resolution of divides
President Donald Trump traveled to Congress on Tuesday to try and get hold outs of his own party to approve a bill that would advance his agenda.
Trump outwardly ignored the divisions still plaguing efforts to finalize the legislation ahead of a self-imposed deadline to vote on the bill before Memorial Day. Instead, he declared his party was unified.
This is just a pep talk. As Trump entered the meeting, he said that we had a unified House and Senate. “I don’t think the Republican party has ever been so unified.”
House GOP leaders spent the weekend negotiating with holdouts to get closer to a bipartisan agreement after a few members tanked a budget committee vote on Friday.
Roy and his fellow Freedom Caucus members said that they needed to see more concessions before they would vote in favor of the bill.
“Every step of the way, when there were questions, when there were final decisions that had to be made, [President Trump] was always one phone call away,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., told reporters last week. “And he’ll continue to be.”
He has been less opinionated on specifics about how to pay for the bill or how long provisions should last — and he hasn’t taken sides in the debate between House GOP factions.
Source: Trump gives House Republicans a ‘pep talk’ to close divides on massive tax bill
The Freedom Caucus: Trump’s stance on the deficit cuts measure and his veto at the House Ways and Means of Congress
Ahead of the meeting, Trump said that he did not believe in lifting the cap on the deductibility of state and local taxes, and heaped ridicule on their governors, even though he did not have evidence that they rigged the election.
Members of the Freedom Caucus say the bill doesn’t result in significant enough deficit reduction. They secured some concessions but they were angry about the House potentially threatening coverage for 8.6 million people in the Medicaid program and could make it a problem in next year’s elections. The Salt advocates are at odds with the cost-cutting group.
Two former Trump aides who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about private conversations described Trump as a very persuasive person, who made it hard for members to say no.
On social media, Trump warned holdouts to get behind the bill, and called on his party to unite behind it.
