The One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act: House Conservatives Advance in Rare Weekend Vote — CNN’s State of the Union’s Jim Clyburn
Democrats were opposed to the measure which was called the One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act. In the Friday’s hearing, Rep. Pramila Jayapal said it was one big, beautiful betrayal.
“This spending bill is terrible, and I think the American people know that,” Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. There is nothing wrong with bringing the government in balance. But there is a problem when that balance comes on the back of working men and women. This is what is happening here.
Johnson said: “The package that we send over there will be one that was very carefully negotiated and delicately balanced, and we hope that they don’t make many modifications to it because that will ensure its passage quickly.”
If the bill passes the House this week, it would then move to the Senate, where Republican lawmakers are also eyeing changes that could make final passage in the House more difficult.
The New York lawmaker said they had considered a deduction of $124,000 for joint filing and $62,000 for single filing.
Source: Trump’s bill advances in rare weekend vote as House conservatives negotiate changes
The GOP Senate is Upset by the Speaker’s Failure to Outcome Trump’s 2019 Budget Addressing Deficit hawks Concerns
Johnson is not just having to address the concerns of the deficit hawks in his party. He’s also facing a backlash from the centrists who will be interested in the changes to Medicaid, food assistance programs and the repeal 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.
At its core, the sprawling legislative package permanently extends the existing income tax cuts that were approved during Trump’s first term, in 2017 and adds temporary new ones that the president campaigned on in 2024, including no taxes on tips, overtime pay and auto loan interest payments. The measure proposes big increases in border security and defense spending.
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. But he also warned that more changes were needed and “the bill does not yet meet the moment.”
Roy had been joined Friday in voting no by Reps. Ralph Norman of South Carolina, Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma and Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia. Smucker switched his vote to no because he wanted the vote to be 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.”
The House Budget Committee voted unanimously against the spending cuts and border security package for children under the age of 18: Comments on the resurgence by deficit hawks
“We are writing checks we cannot cash, and our kids are going to pay the price,” said Rep.Chip Roy, a member of the committee. “Something needs to change, or you’re not going to get my support.”
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.
After meeting with Republican legislators, Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters that changes had been agreed to, but he didn’t offer any details. He described them as “just some minor modifications. It’s not a huge thing.
The Democrats pressed for more information. The bill was still under negotiation, according to the chairman of the House Budget Committee.
Four conservatives voted present to make sure that the bill could advance by a vote of 17-16 so that they could voice their concerns.
He stated on “Fox News Sunday” that the election mandate of the American people would be delivered through this vehicle.
Deficit hawks joined Democrats in voting against the measure being reported to the full House last week, even though Republicans tried to move it out of the Budget Committee.
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. Under the current bill, those requirements wouldn’t kick in until 2029.
“Trump gives House Republicans a ‘pep talk’ to close divides on massive tax bill,” Rep. Jared Kushner, C.C.E.B., Jan. 7, 2015
The president went to Capitol Hill Tuesday to make a personal appeal to holdout Republicans to support the bill, which is a key part of the GOP 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. He declared that his party was unified.
“This is really just a pep talk. We have a very unified House, and we have a very unified Senate,” Trump said as he entered the meeting. “I don’t think the Republican party has ever been so unified.”
After a few Republican members tanked a budget committee vote, House GOP leaders went to the weekend negotiating to get closer to consensus.
Roy and his fellow Freedom Caucus members left the vote saying that while progress was made, they need to see more concessions in order to support the bill in votes later this week.
“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. “He’ll continue to be.”
He hasn’t been as outspoken about how the bill should be funded or how long provisions should last.
Source: Trump gives House Republicans a ‘pep talk’ to close divides on massive tax bill
The SALT deficit, and it’s not going to work: a critical response to the Trump aides at the Summit on Capitol Hill
Ahead of the meeting, Trump expressed skepticism about lifting the cap on the deduction for state and local taxes (SALT,) saying that would mainly benefit California, New York and Illinois, heaping scorn on their governors – and claimed without evidence that they had rigged the presidential election.
The bill doesn’t result in much deficit reduction, according to members of the Freedom Caucus. They secured some concessions — namely the acceleration of the implementation of work requirements to Medicaid — but that has frustrated members who worried that the existing House could threaten coverage for more than 8.6 million people enrolled in the program, and could become a major issue in the midterm elections next year. The hard-line cost-cutting group is at odds with the SALT advocates.
Two former Trump aides who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to describe private conversations described Trump as being very persuasive in one-on-one conversations, calling him the “ultimate closer” who makes it hard for members to say no.
Trump recently stepped up the pressure on holdouts in his party on social media, calling on his party to unite behind the bill — and warning holdouts to get behind it.