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 ...
Supreme Court’s final decision day: Top cases to watch
The Supreme Court is set to announce its final slate of opinions Friday, with several blockbuster cases left to be decided before the court’s summer break begins.
The justices have yet to hand down major decisions expected to implicate porn website rules, LGBTQ books in schools, Louisiana’s congressional map and President Trump’s efforts to narrow birthright citizenship.
Here’s a look at the major cases left this term:
Birthright citizenship...
House GOP advances Medcaid cuts
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Celsius, compression socks and Cava: How lawmakers survived an all-nighter
The House Energy and Commerce Committee burned the midnight oil.
The panel — which has jurisdiction over one of the largest parts of the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill” — held an around-the-clock markup this week, kicking off the action at 2 p.m. on Tuesday and continuing through the night before finally wrapping up at roughly 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
The 26.5 hour confab was not the panel’s longest. That distinction belongs to a 2017 markup of the Republicans’ bill to re...
Republicans advance bill with steep cuts to Medicaid as part of Trump agenda
Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced legislation Wednesday afternoon containing cuts to Medicaid and health care provisions — some of the most controversial and contentious provisions that will be included in the "big, beautiful bill" of President Trump's ambitious legislative agenda.
The panel voted along party lines 30-24 after a marathon meeting that lasted more than 26 hours with just two breaks for House votes. The bill now heads to the ...
GOP senators raise red flags over House’s ambitious Trump legislative package
An ambitious House bill to cut taxes by hundreds of billions of dollars and pay for part of it by slashing Medicaid spending faces a rocky path in the Senate, where Republican lawmakers warn the changes to the safety net program could hurt rural hospitals and reduce benefits for their constituents.
Republican senators are also raising red flags about the House plan’s phase-out of renewable energy tax credits and what they’re calling an inadequate attempt to reduce the ballo...