05/16/2025

GOP Hard-liners Block Trump’s Massive Tax and Immigration Package

The vote is a significant, but not fatal, setback to the "big, beautiful bill"

Republican budget hard-liners rebelled Friday to block President Donald Trump’s massive tax and immigration package over concerns the legislation does not impose deep enough spending cuts. Five fiscal hawks in the House Budget Committee joined Democrats to sink a procedural vote that would have advanced the measure — formally called the "One Big, Beautiful Bill" Act — to the House floor, where Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) hoped to push it through the chamber next week.

The vote is a rebuke of the speaker and Trump, who earlier Friday insisted on social media that the "grandstanders" against the legislation "MUST UNITE behind, 'THE ONE, BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL!'... STOP TALKING, AND GET IT DONE!*

But Republicans across the ideological spectrum are worried about what could happen to their bill when it reaches the Senate. Leaders there have already suggested they are interested in dramatic policy changes to the House bill, and many of the proposals most important to the House may not survive the upper chamber’s strict rules that govern the budget process.

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