The House Republicans advance Trump’s bill

The GOP Senate Select Committee’s Convener’s Report on the Senate Budget Committee Report on Sunday’s No-Goal Vote on the Green New Scam

Roy and four other congressmen voted against it on Friday, including representatives from South Carolina, Oklahoma, and Georgia. After making a procedural change to his no vote, the Pennsylvania congressman could have his vote reconsidered later.

After Sunday’s vote, Roy tweeted on X that the bill will “move Medicaid work requirements forward and reduces the availability of future subsidies under the green new scam,” a reference to the green energy tax breaks from the Inflation Reduction Act. The bill does not yet meet the moment, he warned, and there were more changes that were needed.

The bill does not yet meet the moment, but Mr. Roy mentioned deep cuts to Medicaid in a sign of the difficult path ahead. The Rules Committee, which will decide whether or not the bill can be debated on the House floor, can make changes to the bill before the final vote. Two of the holdouts, Mr. Roy and Mr. Norman, are members with the power to block it from advancing from that panel as well.

Democrats on the panel pressed for more details. The bill was still under negotiation, said Rep. Jodey Arrington, the chairman of the House Budget Committee.

Making sure everyone knows what the heck is going on, because it changes in the back room by the minute. The negotiations that Mr. Johnson had continued with the holdouts just before the panel met was an allusion to that.

Dem Dems Against Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act”: Tax Cuts for Joint Filers, Social Security, Border Security and Defense

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.

The American people know this is terrible, according to Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C. We are bringing the government in balance. But there is a problem when that balance comes on the back of working men and women. And that’s what is happening here.”

The package that we send over there will have been carefully negotiated and delicately balanced, and we hope they don’t make many modifications to it, because that will ensure its passage quickly.

If the House passes the bill this week, it will be forwarded to the Senate, where RepublicanLawmakers are looking at changes that will make final passage more difficult.

As it stands, the bill proposes tripling what’s currently a $10,000 cap on the state and local tax deduction, increasing it to $30,000 for joint filers with incomes up to $400,000 a year.

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 legislators from New York and elsewhere are demanding that the state and local taxes be deductible.

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.

In order to permanently extend the tax cuts approved by Trump in his first term, the package adds temporary new ones, including no taxes on tips, overtime, and auto loan interest payments. The measure also proposes to spend more on border security and defense.

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.”

Source: Trump’s bill advances in rare weekend vote as House conservatives negotiate changes

The House Budget Committee Appropriately Approved a Large Tax Cut and Border Security Package Deciding on a Child’s Fee

“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 has to change or I won’t support you.

WASHINGTON — Republicans advanced their massive tax cut and border security package out of a key House committee during a rare Sunday night vote as deficit hawks who had blocked the measure two days earlier allowed it to move forward, citing what they called progress in negotiations on the package’s spending cuts.

Speaker Mike Johnson met with Republican lawmakers and told them that some changes had been agreed to, but he did not give any details. He called them just some minor modifications. It’s not a huge thing.

“Deliberations continue at this very moment,” Arrington said. “They will continue on into the week, and I suspect right up until the time we put this big, beautiful bill on the floor of the House.”

The four conservatives who have been voicing concerns about the bill’s impact on the deficit voted present so that the measure could advance by a vote of 17-16.

He said on “Fox News Sunday” they would deliver the mandate that the Americans gave 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.