Weekend do-over planned for 'big, beautiful' budget package

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Source: Roll Call

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.

“You never know until you call the question where people stand, which is the reason I called for a vote,” Arrington told reporters after the markup. “You cannot debate things ad infinitum and achieve anything, including something this important.” But the public rejection of President Donald Trump’s top legislative priority marked a clear setback for GOP leadership and appeared to add fuel to the internal warfare within the GOP conference over the size and shape of a package designed to deliver tax cuts, defense and border security funding, major spending cuts and more.

Read more: https://rollcall.com/2025/05/16/big-beautiful-budget-package-bottled-up-in-committee-for-now/

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1. Sorry, krasnov, a shiny load of turds still stinks just as badly!

Repugs love the shit and keep trying to shovel it on us. The people that dissented only wanted the pile to be deeper and the hurt it causes to the American public to be worse! Taking from the poor to give to the rich is the only thing they really want.