Posted on 05/16/2025 9:26:17 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
Conservatives on the House Budget Committee on Friday blocked their party’s megabill from reaching the floor, citing concerns that the legislation to fulfill President Trump’s domestic agenda would add too much to the deficit.
It was a remarkable revolt that threatened to upend the party’s drive to push the legislation through the House before Memorial Day, and sent Republican leaders scrambling to try to put down the uprising.
Five Republicans — Representatives Chip Roy of Texas, Ralph Norman of South Carolina, Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma, Andrew Clyde of Georgia, and Lloyd Smucker of Pennsylvania — joined Democrats in voting against the legislation. The vote was 16 to 21.
“This bill falls profoundly short; it does not do what we say it does with respect to deficits,” Mr. Roy said. “Deficits will go up in the first half of the 10 year budget window, and we all know it’s true, and we shouldn’t do that. We shouldn’t say that we’re doing something we’re not doing.”
The bill would make Mr. Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent and eliminate taxes on tips and overtime pay through 2028, fulfilling a campaign pledge. Cuts to Medicaid, food stamps and subsidies for clean energy would partly offset the roughly $3.8 trillion cost of those tax measures over 10 years, as well as increased spending on the military and immigration enforcement.
But the conservatives are demanding changes to the bill, arguing that their leaders did not go far enough to cut federal spending. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan group that calls for lower deficits, estimated that the bill would add roughly $3.3 trillion to the deficit over the next decade.
Chief among their frustrations are that a measure imposing work requirements on childless Medicaid recipients without disabilities would not kick in until 2029.
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But...but..
We HAVE to vote for the bush league chamber of commerce worshipping republiCAN’Ts because..because...
Well, just because
True. Sometimes (frequently) the use of Rino is a lazy way of using a perjorative with no thoughts about fundamental positions. Some are willing to sacrifice principles merely in order to get things done. Shabby way to uphold one’s integrity.
Gwjack
It should never have been one bill. Broken up and tiled right there could have been two bills both with a chance for reconciliation. Tax cuts, defense, deregulation, modest welfare reform, all could’ve passed. Next go-around could have handled the rest. Really bad tactics which have a few congress critters too much leverage.
Trump needs to weigh in biggly. But so far he seems to like spending big. He did his first term to. Trump for all his bombast doesn’t like war. Foreign or domestic.
No bill should be more than three pages long.
Little to no spending Cuts.
Johnson worked with “Pork Barrel” RINOS to craft this bill.
GOP Kicking the Spending Cuts down the road as always.
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