Posted on 07/02/2025 6:51:38 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Speaker Mike Johnson moved to push the GOP’s domestic policy megabill forward Wednesday night despite threats from House Republican vote a procedural measure down.
Johnson’s move — essentially daring the hard-liners to derail President Donald Trump’s top legislative priority — came after members of the House Freedom Caucus huddled among themselves following hours of negotiating Wednesday with GOP leaders. If enough Freedom Caucus members withhold their votes, the “rule” — the procedural measure providing for final floor consideration of the megabill — will fail.
Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert indicated she’s sticking with her fellow Freedom Caucus members on any rule vote.
“Not tonight,” she said, before several of the hard-liners huddled again, this time in Johnson’s office...
That likely means it’s curtains for the agreement brokered this spring by fiscal hawks, led by Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-Pa.), who insisted on a mechanism tying the amount of tax cuts in the GOP megabill to the total amount of spending cuts.
But the sprawling domestic policy legislation that Senate Republicans sent to the House violates that mechanism. If Speaker Mike Johnson plows forward with the Senate plan, as he intends to do, any House member could theoretically raise a “point of order” pointing out that the legislation doesn’t adhere to budget adopted by the House...
Senate Republicans piled on far more tax cuts in their version of the megabill and likely didn’t include as much aggregate spending cuts as the House plan. According to one analysis by Andrew Lautz of the Bipartisan Policy Center, the Senate added $560 billion in new tax cuts compared with the House-passed bill. A final tranche of changes to the bill made on the Senate floor Tuesday further cut revenues by $20 billion while increased spending by $90 billion, adding to the fiscal violation...
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The Perfect is the enemy of the Good.
I’m on the fence on this one
Looks like the bill will fail now. Well Donald did everything he could now he can use his war chest to support candidates they didn’t want a huge tax increase. He should on immigration and foreign policy the GOP just has to many grnadstanders to ever be totally unified.
Who are the 4 Nay votes?
The bill is in NO WAY perfect..but the fact that Dems are so against it means they want everyone’s taxes to go up to help them in Nov 2026
“Johnson stares down hard-liners” nothing like Congress in Washington a lot like the old “Congress Inn” of World War II Honolulu where hundreds of thousands of men lined up to be serviced by the hundreds of women who worked there.
It’s not over...4 is not enough to make it fail...
Yes it is 216-216
Yeh the bill is done. Thanks for the tax increase guys
Yes it is. A tie means it fails.
It will pass by one vote. It will be easy to bribe one congressman to change his vote,
the dems just cant stand that people who are able to work and choose not to wont get free government handouts anymore.
A Repub can still change their nay vote to a Yay
Yeah they want ILLEGALS to continue getting freebies otherwise they might leave the country and they would lose congressional seats..just imagine if ALL illegals were deported, the GOP would get back 30 seats
Rep Self was in favor of it then BAM he changed his mind..he wants to be bought off like Murkowski did, she was a NO vote til she got what she wanted
“””Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert indicated she’s sticking with her fellow Freedom Caucus members on any rule vote. “”
Is this bimbo the best they could come up with in that district?
Trump has been doing a great job. Pass the f’n bill for him. You never get everything but it a step in the right direction.
I’m a pray’n.
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