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Posted on 05/16/2025 10:38:03 AM PDT by Red Badger
WASHINGTON — The GOP-led House Budget Committee voted to reject a sweeping package for President Donald Trump’s agenda on Friday, dealing an embarrassing setback for Republican leaders.
The vote in the Budget Committee was 16-21, with five conservative hard-liners joining all Democrats in voting against the multitrillion-dollar legislation. After the vote tally was read, Rep. Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, the committee chair, adjourned the hearing and told members they would not be meeting again this weekend.
Negotiations with the GOP holdouts will continue in the coming days and Republicans on the panel will try to regroup as soon as Monday.
Republican leaders concede the massive bill isn’t ready for prime time, and that critical changes will need to be made in the coming days to tax and Medicaid provisions to win over recalcitrant members.
In an office near the hearing, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., huddled privately with some of the Freedom Caucus members who serve on the budget panel — Reps. Chip Roy of Texas, Ralph Norman of South Carolina, Andrew Clyde of Georgia, and Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma. Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md., who is not on the panel, also joined them.
In the hearing, Roy fired a warning shot at Republican leaders, saying he opposes the bill as written because it will increase the deficit.
“I have to now admonish my colleagues on this side of the aisle. This bill falls profoundly short. It does not do what we say it does with respect to deficits,” Roy said. “That’s the truth. 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.”
“This bill has back-loaded savings and has front-loaded spending,” Roy added. “I am a no on this bill unless serious reforms are made today, tomorrow, Sunday,” he said. “Something needs to change or you’re not gonna get my support.”
He was joined by Norman, who also said the bill needed changes before it could earn his vote.
Across the aisle, Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pa., previewed the Republican divisions at the outset of the hearing, vowing that all Democrats oppose it.
“You will hear over the course of this hearing a vigorous debate. And frankly there is a strong divide between Republicans and some other Republicans. There is also a divide between both sets of Republicans and this side of the dais,” said Boyle, the top Democrat on the Budget panel. “I can speak at least as to why it is every Democratic member will be voting no on the bill for billionaires.”
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Fire them ,LOL
Siding with comey I fear.
GOP Leaders is an oxymoron.
The GOP congressional clown show continues.
Make sure you vote (R)etard because, well just because.
Good - glad at least someone cares about the deficit.
For God’s sake, look at the numbers.
The deficit is not some ignorable number. IT ADDS TO DEBT, WHICH GENERATES INTEREST.
These guys shot this down because if explodes the deficit and thus, the debt. You want to reduce the deficit, then cut spending EVEN DEEPER.
Which will also never pass.
Welcome to mathematics. Welcome to crushing mathematics. Who is going to stand up in this environment and ask for $100B to send to Ukraine.
Not taxpayer $100B. Not even borrowed $100B. Fed created from nothingness $100B.
Incorporate DOGE grift, graft, fraud, waste & abuse findings NOW!
I can’t blame the 5 fiscal conservatives. I don’t see the wisdom in inflating the already bloated and unaffordable nation debt.
When conservatives join every democrat…they ain’t conservative.
Frustration talking here — How long is this crap going to be tolerated/ How much longer are we going to be told to “be patient” and “muh mid-terms”? How much longer are we going to see the same thing happen over and over and over again, with no substantive consequences or results except more high-level peeps bitching on the Internet?
There. I feel better (for a few minutes, anyway). Heh.
Good thing those so-called hardliners can so easily align themselves with the democrats...
The deep state pukes in the House must be jubilant
Good thing those so-called hardliners can so easily align themselves with the democrats.................
They are nothing but swamp frogs with a scorpion on their back.
Because they oppose the deficit that will be a result? That is quite a reach there.
I agree, but what changes would actually get their approval, while still getting a yes vote from the majority?
So, did they have the same reasons as the Dems did for voting down the bill?
Yellow Dog Traitors...
Perhaps. What did Comey know?
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