WASHINGTON - House Budget Committee Senior President Donald Trump’s numerous monetary domestic policy plans Sunday night a group of conservatives voted to reject the plan.
The party vote was 17-16, with four Republicans opposing the bill in a vote "present" on Friday.
The result was a positive signal of a massive partisan bill after Friday’s severe setback, but it still needs to be changed before the votes are obtained to pass the entire House. And, if you do, it will face many challenges in the Senate, where Republicans make it clear that it won't pass without a major change.
The package includes immigration enforcement and heavy spending in the military, which will extend Trump's 2017 tax cuts, which expire at the end of this year. It includes a series of cuts to Medicaid, food aid and clean energy funds to pay trillions of dollars in tax cuts and new red ink.
The successful vote is the product of Republican leaders' violations over the weekend with conservative tough people, who say the bill fails to achieve meaningful spending cuts and will increase the U.S. deficit. These conservatives insist that Medicaid work requirements take effect immediately and eliminate the clean energy tax credit more quickly.
“I’m excited about the changes we’ve made and I’m going to vote here,” Ralph Norman, a conservative hardcore, said before the vote. He ignored the issues of committee members regarding the changes he referred to.
Norman voted with Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, Andrew Clyde of Georgia and Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma. They voted against the bill on Friday to prevent it from moving forward.
The committee's top Democrat, Brendan Boyle, of Pennsylvania, first asked R-Texas chairman Jodey Arrington to relate to the committee's transparency about the defeated vote of "side deals".
"The deliberations continue until this moment. They will continue into this week and I'm doubting until we put this big and beautiful bill on the floor of the house," Arlington said. "We won't disclose the deliberations. I'm not sure if I can disclose all the deliberations."
“I know nothing about the deputy deal or any deal,” he said, adding that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office had no deficit and impact.
Arrington added "no formal or final change" to an inquiry responding to what changed in the bill.
Roy said on X that the changes include setting Medicaid job requirements (currently scheduled to take effect in 2029), gradual launch, and reducing “the availability of future subsidies” to clean energy.
"But the bill hasn't reached this moment yet, and we can and must do better before we pass the final product," Roy said.
Earlier in the day, Republican leaders issued optimistic attention in an optimistic situation.
“We are working hard, working around the clock, to provide the American people with this shaping legislation as soon as possible. … It’s really a generational opportunity we have here,” R-la. Speaker Mike Johnson said on Sunday Fox News.
Johnson said he expects the plan to move to the Rules Committee by mid-week and to the House this weekend so House Republicans can meet their self-imposed Memorial Day deadline for final passage.