Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Passes Key Hurdle in the House, One Step Closer to Chamber Vote

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Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Passes Key Hurdle in the House, One Step Closer to Chamber Vote

Paul Bois 19 May 2025

President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” passed a key obstacle in the U.S. House on Sunday, putting it within striking distance of a chamber vote.

As Breitbart News reported on Friday, the House Budget Committee voted down the bill, with four House conservatives demanding greater reforms.

“House conservatives requested more changes in order to make a bigger, more beautiful bill,” said the report. “Their concerns varied from spending and taxes to Second Amendment provisions, but they also raised concerns that many of the reforms in the legislation were postponed for years and would likely be eliminated in future legislation before taking effect.”

On Sunday, the House Budget Committee voted for the bill to advance in a rare late-night vote along party lines at 17-16.

Per The Hill:

    The four Republican holdouts who had tanked the vote on Friday — Reps. Ralph Norman (S.C.), Chip Roy (Texas), Andrew Clyde (Ga.), and Josh Brecheen (Okla.) — voted present to allow the bill to go forward, with Roy revealing that there was progress on moving up the start date for new Medicaid work requirements and speeding up the phase-out of green energy incentives.

    The next stop is the House Rules Committee, which is set to take up the legislation later this week and make last-minute changes to the bill to reflect any compromises and demands between deficit hawks and moderates in high-tax states.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/19/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-passes-key-hurdle-in-the-house-one-step-closer-to-chamber-vote/

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Senate Republicans want to break up House’s Trump bill into bite-sized pieces
by Alexander Bolton - 05/19/25 6:00 AM ET

Senate Republicans say the House-drafted bill to enact President Trump’s legislative agenda has “problems” and are taking a second look at breaking it up into smaller pieces in hopes of getting the president’s less controversial priorities enacted into law before the fall.

Even if Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) manages to squeak Trump’s agenda through the House, it faces major obstacles in the Senate, where moderate Republicans say they oppose proposed cuts to Medicaid and fiscal conservatives say it doesn’t go nearly far enough in cutting the deficit.

“There are still a lot of problems,” said one Republican senator who requested anonymity to discuss internal discussions within the Senate GOP conference on the budget reconciliation bill.

The source said that while proposed cuts in Medicaid spending face stiff opposition in the Senate, GOP negotiators have yet to make much headway on reforms to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which conservatives are targeting for cuts.

The lawmaker said colleagues are talking about a Plan B if the bill fails to pass the House or if it hits a brick wall in the Senate.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5304984-trump-agenda-stalled-senate-considering-split/