House delays key vote on Trump budget bill after conservative fury over spending cuts

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House delays key vote on Trump budget bill after conservative fury over spending cuts
House Freedom Caucus members are pushing for deeper spending cuts
By Elizabeth Elkind Fox News
Published February 4, 2025 10:06am EST

A key vote to advance a massive conservative policy bill has been delayed, putting House Republicans behind in their ambitious schedule to enact President Donald Trump's agenda.

The House Budget Committee had initially aimed to go through and approve the legislation this week, but a source familiar with planning told Fox News Digital that is no longer the case.

It comes after conservatives on the panel rejected multiple offers by House GOP leaders on where to set a baseline for cutting federal spending, urging senior Republicans to seek deeper cuts ahead of negotiations with the Senate.

"I guess they want to get the resolution out. I do, too. I want to get it out of committee, have an up or down vote. But if you set that floor too low, that's all that’s going to be achieved," Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., who sits on the House Budget Committee, told Fox News Digital on Monday. "I have no confidence that they would exceed whatever level we put in there."

Norman is one of several members of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus who sits on the budget committee.

With just a razor-thin majority in the House – and by extension, on committees – Republicans can afford dissent from just one or two members to pass anything along party lines.

It's a significant hurdle facing the GOP as they seek to use their House and Senate majorities to pass a sweeping conservative policy overhaul via the budget reconciliation process.

By lowering the threshold for Senate passage from 60 votes to 51 out of 100, the maneuver allows the party in power to skirt its opposition to advance its agenda – provided the items included relate to budgetary and other fiscal matters. The House of Representatives already has a simple majority threshold.

Republicans are hoping to use reconciliation to pass a broad swath of Trump's policy goals, from more funding at the border to removing taxes on tipped and overtime wages.

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[DefiantMassRINO]

Push for deeper cuts to have a better negotiating position with the US Senate.  Start from a lower number since that number will only increase in the US Senate.

The House Reps will know they are getting close when Dems starting wailing about veterans, the elderly, and orphans having to live on the streets if the budget passes.

When Massachusetts towns want a propery tax override, voted upon by town residents, they used to only submit one request - that concentrated risk to losing the ovverride.

Over the years, they've learned to submit three ovverride requests of varying amounts - high, medium, low.  Now, they almost always get at least the low amount because the higher two make the lowest one look more reasonable.

[jafo2010]

All here complained about my comments here about Trump's approach.  And here we are, week three and the CONSERVATIVES ARE BENT, delaying the progression of legislation.

Again, I want Trump to be successful, but this bull in the china shop approach needs to be re-examined.  Focus on getting the legislation past, let DOGE do their investigation/analysis, and subsequent to the legislation being passed, move forward with DOGE implementations.

Almost everything he is doing will ultimately require the Supreme Court to approve.  We know there are three votes in the Supreme Court that will NEVER agree to anything Trump wants.  They need only two more votes to kill anything they want.  The Supremes buried their heads in 2020, and I suspect Roberts and Coney Barrett will not support him if the conservatives in Congress are ticked!

Better entertainment than watching Netflix.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Dems have an advantage in that continuing resolutions continue Nancy Pelosi's spending.

Every transaction is a negotiation - something, for something else in return.  No giveways.

If US Senate wants more spending than House, Senators need to be ready to throw a few sacrificial lambs on the altar of budget sacrifice.

[Timber Rattler]

Reconciliation again, eh?  Now where have I heard THAT before?

[IsailedawayfromFR]

All here complained about my comments here about Trump's approach.  And here we are, week three and the CONSERVATIVES ARE BENT, delaying the progression of legislation.

Again, I want Trump to be successful, but this bull in the china shop approach needs to be re-examined.  Focus on getting the legislation past, let DOGE do their investigation/analysis, and subsequent to the legislation being passed, move forward with DOGE implementations.

That same approach has made more conservative inroads since the Gipper.  Why should he back off now?

We are witnessing a true return to a Constitutional Republic by the downsizing of the federal government and accountability.

The only ones who will suffer are the Democrat party, climate cultists, social psychopaths' like transgenders, our enemies who want us dead and the cadre of domestic pariahs who suck out the life of normal Americans.

Backing off will signify weakness which which will be exploited by those who hate conservatism.

His entire team is almost intact now, so watch the fireworks happening in the weeks ahead.

We ain't seen nothing yet, as the best way to take the bandaid off is to rip it quickly rather than slowly

As far as Scotus, that will be there regardless.  I worry more on the Dems' strategy by hook, crook or outright murder to get the House majority and thwart what is going on.

Before the election took place, I have anticipated the Dems knew they could not win the Senate or Presidency, and have planted the seeds to get the House seats they need from blue states to takeover.