Weekend do-over planned for ‘big, beautiful’ budget package
GOP leaders regroup to try to cut deal with conservatives ahead of Sunday night vote
By Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted May 16, 2025 at 12:46pm, Updated at 3:34pm
The House Budget Committee plans to try again Sunday night to advance the GOP’s expansive reconciliation package after four Republican dissenters torpedoed the measure at a markup Friday.
Within hours of the Budget panel’s 16-21 vote rejecting the bill earlier Friday, Chairman Jodey C. Arrington, R-Texas, called for a second session on Sunday at 10 p.m. The announcement came shortly after promising members they could spend the weekend with their families and that the panel wouldn’t reconvene until Monday morning.
The decision to schedule a second vote so quickly — before House leaders could cut a deal with their detractors — underscored the determination of GOP leadership to keep the bill on an aggressive timeline, with a House floor vote expected next week.
Reps. Chip Roy, R-Texas, Ralph Norman, R-S.C., Josh Brecheen, R-Okla., and Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., all had unresolved concerns about the draft bill and stood in the way of its approval on Friday morning.
A fifth GOP lawmaker and the panel’s vice chair — Lloyd K. Smucker of Pennsylvania — initially voted “yes” but later flipped his vote after the four other members voted against it. He later said he did so in order to bring up a motion to reconsider the package at a later time.
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