Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.), the chair of the House Freedom Caucus, is predicting that the legislative package at the heart of President Trump's domestic agenda doesn't have the support to pass through the House this week.
"I think it's pretty obvious that they're going to need more time," Harris told reporters Monday evening outside the Capitol.
"These are complicated discussions. These are complicated issues. These are trillions of dollars," he added. "We've got to...
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Here’s what’s in the GOP’s ‘big, beautiful bill’
House Republicans this week passed a sweeping package of President Trump's tax proposals, spending cuts and reforms for key federal programs.
The nearly party-line, 215-214 vote came after weeks of intense negotiations, marathon meetings, last-minute changes and an overnight session on the House floor.
The bill now goes to the upper chamber, where Senate Republicans are already eyeing changes.
Here's a rundown of what's in the more than 1,000-page bill t...
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US advocacy groups are waging an intensive campaign to protect Medicaid and Obamacare from Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill”, after House Republicans proposed an $880bn cut that could leave an estimated 13 million Americans without health insurance.
The House bill left Republicans’ most controversial proposals on the table, but has divided Senate Repu...
US health groups vow to fight GOP cuts to Medicaid and Obamacare
Cuts worth $880bn could leave 13 million Americans without insurance in proposal that has divided Republicans
US advocacy groups are waging an intensive campaign to protect Medicaid and Obamacare from Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill”, after House Republicans proposed an $880bn cut that could leave an estimated 13 million Americans without health insurance.
The House bill left Republicans’ most controversial proposals on the table, but has divided Senate Republicans: one cal...
Republicans advance Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ in unusual late-night vote
Republican deficit hawks allowed President Trump’s bill of legislative priorities to advance out of the House Budget Committee in an unusual late-night vote on Sunday, marking a key hurdle cleared for House GOP leaders and a sign of progress for warring Republican factions
After gaveling in after 10 p.m. on Sunday, the committee voted 17-16 to advance the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which would extend Trump’s tax cuts and boost his border funding priorities while refor...
These are the top sticking points stalling the Trump agenda megabill
House Republicans are working to give their “big beautiful bill” a face lift as they try to appease warring factions of the party in hopes of sending President Trump’s legislative agenda to the Senate before Memorial Day.
The broad outline of the megabill is already set, with committees completing advancement of all 11 portions of the sprawling bill in marathon markups this week.
The legislation includes an extension of the tax cuts Trump signed into law in 2017; doi...
GOP tax bill would shrink incomes for low earners: Analysis
Many different think tanks and legislative analysts in Washington have been sounding the alarm that the GOP bill to cut taxes and spending has greater advantages for wealthier taxpayers than it does for working Americans.
But one group is projecting lower earners will not only receive smaller benefits from the bill but will actually be financially worse off when the individual rate cuts and benefit reductions are taken together.
The analysis from Penn Wharton Budget ...
GOP fiscal hawks sink key vote on Trump ‘big, beautiful bill’
Fiscal hawks on the House Budget Committee on Friday sunk a key vote on advancing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that encompasses President Trump’s legislative agenda, marking a stunning setback for the legislation.
The 16-21 vote throws up a hurdle for leaders hoping to send the bill to the Senate by Memorial Day — but who are still haggling over last minute changes to appease not only the fiscal hawks but moderates seeking bigger blue-state tax breaks.
Five Repu...
Trump megabill on thin ice ahead of key vote
A key committee vote for the Republican package full of President Trump’s legislative priorities scheduled for Friday could be punted to next week as hardliners on the panel threaten to block the legislation.
“I haven’t given up yet. But there are concerns about having to get more information, which would potentially delay this to next week, so we’ll see,” House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) said Thursday.
The possible delay comes after a wave of h...
Trump package to be changed to appease recalcitrant Republicans
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Thursday signaled that changes will be made to the party’s mega-bill full of President Trump’s legislative priorities in order to win support from conservative and moderate Republicans balking at some of its provisions.
Those alterations, he warned, will not only include a larger tax break for blue states that several Republican moderates are demanding but also steeper spending cuts elsewhere in the bill, as fiscal hawks raise alarm that the ...