A vote on the mega invoice aimed at advancing on the agenda of President Donald Trump failed in the Chamber Budget Committee on Friday afternoon in the middle of the objections of the hard funds, stopping the progress of the bill in the committee.
Republican representatives Andrew Clyde, Josh Brecheen, Lloyd Smucker, Ralph Norman and Chip Roy voted against eliminating the committee bill, challenging Trump and President Mike Johnson. The group complained, in part, that most of the savings in the legislation do not enter into force until Trump leaves the position.
The vote of the committee failed with only 16 legislators in favor and 21 voting against. The measure is a setback for Johnson and Trump, who previously asked the holdouts to align and join behind the bill, and Trump said in a publication on social networks that “we do not need ‘abenes’ in the Republican party.”
Norman said before you can make you want leadership commitments in changes in Medicaid’s work requirements.
“I’m tired of smoke and mirrors,” Norman said on Friday. “This is not a tribune. I don’t need the tribune.”
The terrible experience has been another test of Johnson’s accommodation while working to placate the hard lines and unify the factions of his conference.
Republican leaders of the House of Representatives will now continue negotiating with Holdouts behind closed doors, and the Budget Committee will meet again on Monday. While the delay is not ideal, there is still the possibility that the bill can clear the house before the recess of the fallen day.
President Mike Johnson talks to journalists when he leaves the house of the house at the United States Capitol, on May 15, 2025 in Washington.
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Before the failed vote, the leader of the majority, Steve Scalise, explained that the timeline of the bill allows the administration to “really believe a process to implement” some of the provisions in the bill.
“We have a fairly clear idea of what are the final pieces, and we are working at this time,” said Scalise. “We all agree on the reforms we want to do. We want to have work requirements. We want to eliminate many of these green subsidies. How fast can it do it? And it’s not as fast as saying that it turns it off tomorrow.”
The representative Marlin Stutzman, another Republican in the Budget Committee, sympathized with Norman’s “fair” concerns about the delays in the implementation of Medicaid reforms, but described the consensus product of 11 frames “a good start” and emphasized that the Senate will have the opportunity to improve the bill.
“There are many good pieces in this legislation. You know, there are pieces that I feel that we leave short. We could have made larger reforms, reduce more expenses, but at the end of the day, this will grow the economy for the US people,” he said. “I think we are going to get there.”
“I think this is an important piece to move forward as it is, because we need the economy to return to normal,” Stutzman added.
