The Hillby Mychael SchnellJune 30, 2025Moderate Republicans and hard-line conservatives in the House are expressing increasing opposition to the Senate’s version of the “big, beautiful bill” just days before the lower chamber is set to consider the legislation, a daunting dynamic for GOP leaders as they race to meet their self-imposed Friday deadline.The Senate on Monday kicked off the hours-long vote-a-rama with members considering a series of amendments that could be make-or-break for support in the lower chamber, including changes to Medicaid cuts and tax provisions. The upper chamber is expected to vote on final passage early Tuesday morning.
They did...
JD Vance broke a tie to advance the legislation 51-50 after a record-breaking vote-a-rama went through the nightPoliticoMike DeBonis07/01/2025The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is no more — in terms of its official nomenclature, anyway. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer invoked Senate budget rules to delete the title of the bill on the floor Tuesday morning.It has become a tradition for trifecta bills passed under the special Senate rules that sidestep the filibuster. Republicans did it to Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act in 2022, and Democrats did it to the GOP’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017.Neither maneuver stopped lawmakers of either party from using those names to this day to refer to the sprawling party-bills. So expect the “Big Beautiful Bill” to live on, if not in legislative text.
The British Guardian writes...
But it remains unclear if changes made by the chamber will be accepted by the House of Representatives, which approved an initial draft of the legislation last month by a single vote. While Republicans control both house of Congress, factionalism in the lower chamber is particularly intense, with rightwing fiscal hardliners demanding deep spending cuts, moderates wary of dismantling safety net programs and Republicans from Democratic-led states expected to make a stand on a contentious tax provision. Any one of these groups could potentially derail the bill’s passage through a chamber where the GOP can lose no more than three votes.The bill’s passage is nonetheless an accomplishment for Senate Republicans who faced their own divisions in getting it passed , and saw one lawmaker announce their retirement after clashing with Trump over the bill. The push to get the legislation done intensified on Saturday when the chamber voted to begin debate, then continued with amendment votes that began on Monday and stretched all night.
But... a lot was cut out the bill so much that the House may not agree! Politico goes on to write,
Two Republican members of the House Rules Committee blasted the Senate-passed GOP megabill hours before the panel meets to prepare the legislation for a final decisive vote.Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) told reporters he currently opposes advancing the bill out of the Rules Committee after the Senate’s changes.And Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), a leader of the GOP’s ultra-conservative bloc, warned that the odds of House passage of the party’s megabill by July 4 “are hell of a lot lower than they were even 48 hours ago” based on what’s come out of the Senate.
USA Today writes...
Assuming he can muster a majority of votes in the GOP-controlled House, Trump would be in prime position to cement his second-term agenda into law and deliver on promises to cut taxes on tips and overtime, expand immigration enforcement efforts and make permanent his 2017 tax reductions. The legislation also deeply cuts the Medicaid health insurance program while adding a projected $3.3 trillion to the nation's debt over a decade, which has prompted bipartisan opposition to the measure.
Did you happen to read "...adding a projected $3.3 trillion to the nation's debt over a decade... so much for a balanced budget! You know that they will blame it on the President Biden. Somehow this will all be the Democrats fault!
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