This is JUST about getting the House Bill OUT of Committee!
This isn’t about the floor vote, or the thing they want to send to the US Senate, where it’s gonna get re-written…
“President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda is suddenly under sustained attack from Republicans, with conservatives now threatening to vote against the reconciliation package in the Budget Committee tomorrow,” Punchbowl News reports.
“Conservatives want far larger spending cuts for the Medicaid program than the House Energy and Commerce Committee has approved. They’re still seeking changes to how the federal government reimburses states for Medicaid recipients. But revising the reimbursement formula would lose GOP moderates and sink the bill.”
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“A planned Friday vote in the House Budget Committee to advance the GOP megabill is increasingly in peril, with at least three hard-liners pledging to oppose the party-line legislation,” Politico reports.
“Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC), who sits on the Budget Committee, told reporters he will vote against the package of tax cuts and extensions, border security investments, energy policy and more. So will Reps. Josh Brecheen (R-OK) and Chip Roy (R-TX).”
Meanwhile, House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington (R-TX) said he may delay his panel’s markup of the reconciliation package due to “growing” GOP opposition.
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“Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is exploring ways to placate two rival factions who have emerged as the biggest roadblocks in the House to a massive bill for President Donald Trump’s agenda: blue-state Republicans who want larger tax breaks for their constituents and conservatives who want Medicaid cuts to kick in sooner,” NBC News reports.
Said Johnson: “I am convinced that we’ll be able to adjust the dial, so to speak, so that we can come to an agreement that will meet the criteria that everybody has and that we can move this thing forward.”
He added: “If you do more on SALT, you have to find more savings. So these are the dials, the metaphorical dials, that I’m talking about.”
The Hill: Trump package to be changed to appease recalcitrant Republicans….
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“Speaker Mike Johnson is racing to resolve a suite of remaining issues with the GOP megabill just days before he hopes to put it up for a floor vote,” Politico reports.
“Warring factions inside the House Republican Conference huddled with the speaker Thursday, jockeying primarily over what to do about SALT — the state-and-local-tax deduction.”
“But other disagreements are also raging around major spending cuts for Medicaid, clean energy tax credits enacted under former President Joe Biden and a slew of other issues that are part of a complex funding puzzle.”…
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“House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith (R-MO) said Thursday that he’d like to pass a bipartisan tax package before the end of the year,” Politico reports.
“Such legislation could include tax provisions that are due to expire at the end of the year, known as ‘extenders,’ as well as some healthcare items.”
Said Smith: “I would love to work with Sen. Wyden, Chairman Crapo, ranking member Neal in trying to craft a bipartisan bill before the end of the year, because there’s a lot of tax provisions that I really care about that are expiring, or have expired, that are truly, truly bipartisan.”
He added: “But they couldn’t make it in our bill because there’s Republicans that really dislike those provisions.”…
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“There’s a significant number who have very strong reservations. We didn’t come here to claim that we’re going to reform things and then not do it, right?”
— Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), quoted by NOTUS, on the budget reconciliation bill being considered by the House.
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