The House Budget Committee on Sunday night passed the Republicans’ budget reconciliation package 17-16 with 4 present.
After failing to pass Trump’s budget package on Friday, GOP lawmakers reconvened Sunday night and voted to pass the reconciliation package.
THE HOUSE BUDGET COMMITTEE has passed the Republicans’ reconciliation package.
17-16, with 4 present.
JOHNSON gets the bill out of the committee. But there is A LOT of more work to do here
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) May 19, 2025
There is still work to do on the bill.
According to CNN, GOP lawmakers are still negotiating changes to the bill.
House Rs are in intense talks with hardliners about changes to bill — which is expected to make implementation of Medicaid work requirements sooner and more quickly phase out green energy tax credits.
But at Sunday night Budget Committee, Rs not detailing what changes on table
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 19, 2025
According to Punchbowl News, the four hardline GOP lawmakers pushing for changes to the bill: Reps Norman, Roy, Clyde and Brecheen
Sources involved in the reconciliation talks say that the four hardline conservatives — norman, roy, clyde and brecheen — are still pushing for FMAP changes.
This has been a line that moderates have not been willing to cross.
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) May 19, 2025
Fox News reported:
President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” survived a key hurdle in the House of Representatives on Sunday night, putting it one step closer to a chamber-wide vote later this week.
Lawmakers on the House Budget Committee were summoned back to Washington for a 10 p.m. meeting to vote on advancing the legislation, which passed the panel in a nearly party-line vote.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., made a surprise appearance at the committee room shortly before the vote began, telling reporters, “We think this is going to go well tonight. We’re about to find out.”
He said there would likely be “minor modifications” to the final bill.
It comes after a rebellion by four conservative House Freedom Caucus members on the committee blocked the bill from advancing on Friday, with the fiscal hawks seeking assurances that stricter crackdowns on Medicaid and green energy subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) would be in the final bill before a House-wide vote.
