The House Budget Committee shut down President Donald Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” 16-21.
Reps. Ralph Norman (R-SC), Chip Roy (R-TX), Josh Brecheen (R-OK), Andrew Clyde (R-GA), and Lloyd Smucker (R-PA) voted with the Democrats.
Norman and Roy said they would vote no before the meeting. From The Washington Examiner:
Norman and Roy had said from the beginning of the hearing that they would be a “no” on the bill unless substantive changes were made. Brecheen and Clyde had remained noncommittal but ultimately, Clyde and Brecheen both voted against the package after they were unable to get reassurances from leadership and the White House. Smucker was originally a “yes” vote and then changed his vote to “no.”The bill’s failure comes after President Donald Trump urged Republicans to unite around the package, which would cut $1.5 trillion to offset the cost of preserving the president’s 2017 tax break. He told GOP lawmakers to fall in line.
Roy said the bill falls short: “It does not do what we say it does with respect to deficits. The fact of the matter is this bill has back-loaded savings and has front-loaded spending. … And I’m not going to sit here and say that everything is hunky-dory when this is the Budget Committee. This is the Budget Committee!”
Other Republicans lashed out at the bill:
“This is not the big, beautiful bill that I had hoped for,” Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) said during the markup. “The flaw with this bill is it doesn’t go far enough, fast enough, to get our fiscal house in order. But it does take some great strides.”Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) complained that “too many people out here did not want the wonderful bill that so many of us were expecting in January and February.”Republican leaders’ decision to enforce work requirements on Medicaid recipients in 2029, rather than sooner, “indicates that there was kind of a lack of sincerity,” Grothman added. “Nevertheless, there’s some good things in here.”
Cut the spending.
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