House GOP advances Trump's 'budget betrayal' bill in dead of night
Republicans on the House Budget Committee advanced President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" out of committee late Sunday night, after GOP leadership promised the bill would take health care away from poor people sooner.
The hard-liners on the committee, who initially tanked the bill on Friday, voted present on Sunday night—a way for them to let the legislation move forward while still expressing their discontent that the bill doesn’t make more cuts to Medicaid to help pay for the tax cuts that will overwhelmingly benefit the richest few. The bill ultimately advanced by a vote of 17-16.
Reps. Chip Roy of Texas, Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma, Andrew Clyde of Georgia, and Ralph Norman of South Carolina allowed the bill to advance.They said House Speaker Mike Johnson promised them in writing that cuts to Medicaid—the government program that provides health insurance to 72 million low-income Americans annually—will begin earlier than the bill currently states.
The Medicaid work requirements—which experts say lead to immense administrative costs and will ultimately lead millions of people who should be eligible for the program to lose their coverage due to bureaucratic red tape—would now begin in 2026, rather than 2029, as initially drafted.
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