President Donald Trump's "a big and beautiful bill" survived a key obstacle in the House Sunday night, bringing the vote closer to the House later this week.
Members of the House Budget Committee were recalled to Washington for a meeting at 10 p.m. to vote to advance the legislation, which passed the panel with an almost partisan vote.
R-la. Speaker Mike Johnson appeared in the committee room shortly before the vote began and told reporters: "We think this will be good tonight. We are going to find out."
He said the final bill could be "small modifications".
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Trump was in front of the U.S. Capitol building on Friday, January 17, 2025. (Fox News Digital/Trump Range Transition Team)
This was after the insurgency of the committee’s four conservative freedom caucus members, which blocked the bill on Friday, with the Finance Eagles seeking assurance that a serious crackdown on Medicaid and Green Energy Subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) would be finalized before the family voted.
Advancing legislation through the House Budget Committee is a procedural move. Sometime earlier this week, any possible changes will be introduced in the House Rules Committee, the Final Gatekeepers Committee, the Final Gatekeepers Committee.
It is worth noting that the Budget Committee’s two fiscal hawks demanded further changes – Representatives Roy, R-Texas and Rs.C. Ralph Norman. - Also sitting on the House Rules Committee.
Nevertheless, R-la. Speaker Mike Johnson expressed confidence in Fox News on Sunday, with his hall "right" holding a family vote this weekend.
The House Budget Committee adopted a framework earlier this year that contains “instructions” for various other committees to develop Trump policies based on their jurisdiction.
After a House and Senate-wide vote, the House committee began to develop these policies that have now been put back into a large-scale bill, which the House Budget Committee proposed Sunday night.
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Rep. Chip Roy of R-Texas saw outside the U.S. Capitol after his last vote before the August recession Thursday, July 25, 2024 (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
Republicans are working to pass Trump’s agenda through the budget reconciliation process, which allows the party that controls Congress and the White House to pass huge legislation while taking over the minority entirely (in this case, Democrats).
This is done by lowering the Senate's threshold of 60 votes to 51 votes and line up with the house's own simple majority. The legislation must comply with a specific set of rules, including items that are only related to federal spending, taxes and national debt.
Trump is getting Republicans to use legislation to formulate his campaign commitments to cut taxes, immigration, energy, defense and increase debt restrictions.
Although Quelling’s Republican rebellion on Friday was a win in the House Republican leadership victory, lawmakers will still have to negotiate high-stakes on any changes made in the bill before the House Rules Committee considers it.
Conservatives oppose legislation’s crackdown on Medicaid, and Republicans say they’re just pruning for waste, fraud and abuse. But Medicaid job requirements for sound people are not planned until 2029, conservatives argue that these changes are a big window of time, among other issues.
They are also working to make more aggressive efforts to repeal the green energy tax subsidy adopted in the former Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
The respective push has enabled them to benefit tax breaks with moderate and Republican lawmakers with significant cuts to massive Medicaid.
Meanwhile, moderates in high-cost areas have also pushed for larger state and local tax (salt) deduction caps, with red state Republicans largely seen as subsidies to high-tax blue states.
However, Republicans in these seats believe it is a survival issue in their area where Republican victory is crucial to winning the House majority.
But even by the house, Republicans may not do the “big and beautiful bill” – Republican senators have shown that they will likely change the bill.
Johnson said Sunday that House and Senate leaders were “in close coordination” with the final product, adding: “We hope they don’t make too many changes to it.”
Any change must pass through the house again; the same bill must pass through two rooms before being signed by Trump.
Republican leaders said they hope to receive a bill at the president's desk by July 4.