House Republicans Will Vote Again on Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
A group of fiscal hard-liners on the Budget Committee blocked the bill Friday morning. The group will try again to pass the president’s megabill out of committee Sunday night.
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A group of fiscal hard-liners on the Budget Committee blocked the bill Friday morning. The group will try again to pass the president’s megabill out of committee Sunday night.
It has been 120 days since the last drawdown of weapons from Pentagon stockpiles was announced, outstripping Speaker Mike Johnson’s hold on Ukraine aid more than a year ago.
The president’s stated opposition to cutting the program has put Republicans laboring to enact his domestic agenda in a bind.
Days after he privately encouraged Speaker Mike Johnson to increase tax for the wealthy in a bill to fulfill his agenda, he publicly said it could be a bad idea, one that was ‘OK’ with him.
Now, Trump’s big budget bill might require particularly painful cuts in the South.
The president is said to want to create a new top income bracket for people making more than $2.5 million per year and to tax income above that level at a rate of 39.6 percent.
G.O.P. lawmakers from swing districts face tough votes as soon as next week, when key House panels are scheduled to consider legislation that would cut popular programs to pay for President Trump’s agenda.
The Congressional Budget Office reviewed the leading proposals from Republicans who are trying to cut the costs of a program that serves roughly 72 million poor and disabled Americans.
The Republican speaker’s decision underscored the resistance in his party to politically painful reductions to the program, and drew a backlash from the hard right, which is demanding deep cuts.
Senators expressed concern with a military budget they said was far too scant, and one objected to the plan’s gutting of vital programs, including one that offers home heating assistance for the poor.