Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' passes key House hurdle after GOP rebel mutiny

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 It comes after a rebellion by four House conservatives upended plans to advance the bill on Friday morning Lawmakers on the House Budget Committee were summoned back to Washington for a p m meeting to vote again on the bill It passed the panel in a nearly party-line vote to with four Republicans voting present Speaker Mike Johnson R-La made a surprise appearance in the committee room shortly before the vote began telling reporters there would likely be minor modifications to the final bill before disappearing into a back room with the four GOP holdouts who sunk the bill on Friday morning ANTI-ABORTION PROVIDER MEASURE IN TRUMP'S 'BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL' COULD SPARK HOUSE GOP REBELLIONJohnson later signaled confidence in another set of remarks to reporters just as the vote began I think what is about to happen here is that every member every Republican member will give a vote that allows us to proceed forward and we count that as a big win tonight The speaker reported he expects to have productive discussions with various factions of the House GOP adding I am absolutely convinced we're going to get this in final form and pass it in accordance with our original deadline 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 capacity subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act IRA would be in the final bill before a House-wide vote The four conservatives voted present in an effort to move discussions forward on Sunday night after getting those assurances from House GOP leaders Advancing the statute through the House Budget Committee is a largely procedural move Lawmakers have signaled that particular changes will be introduced as amendments in the House Rules Committee the final gatekeeper before a House-wide vote sometime early this week Notably two of the Budget Committee fiscal hawks who demanded further changes Reps Chip Roy R-Texas and Ralph Norman R-S C also sit on the House Rules Committee Tonight after a great deal of work and engagement over the weekend the Budget Committee advanced a reconciliation bill that lays the foundation for much needed tax relief edge assurance and central spending reductions and reforms Importantly the bill now will move Medicaid work requirements forward and reduces the availability of future subsidies under the green new scam Roy explained in a declaration after the vote Norman meanwhile stated Fox News Digital that the four conservatives got those assurances from House GOP leaders in writing The House Budget Committee passed a framework earlier this year with instructions for various other committees to enact Trump policies under their jurisdictions Following House and Senate-wide votes on their frameworks House committees began crafting those policies which have now been put back together into the massive bill the House Budget Committee advanced on Sunday night BROWN UNIVERSITY IN GOP CROSSHAIRS AFTER STUDENT'S DOGE-LIKE EMAIL KICKS OFF FRENZYRepublicans are working to pass Trump s agenda via the budget reconciliation process which allows the party controlling both Congress and the White House to pass vast pieces of decree while altogether sidelining the minority in this situation Democrats It does so by lowering the Senate s threshold for passage from votes to lining up with the House s own simple majority The ordinance must adhere to a specific set of rules however including only items related to federal spending tax and the national debt Trump is having Republicans use the measure to enact his campaign promises on tax cuts immigration potency defense and raising the debt limit And while quelling Friday s GOP mutiny is a domination for House Republican leaders lawmakers will still have to sit through high-stakes negotiations on any changes made to the bill before the House Rules Committee considers it Conservatives are opposed to aspects of the law s crackdown on Medicaid which Republicans have revealed they are only trimming for waste fraud and abuse But Medicaid work requirements for able-bodied people are not set to kick in until and conservatives have argued that it was a large window of time for those changes to be undone among other concerns They re also pushing for a more aggressive effort to repeal green ability tax subsidies passed in the former Biden administration s Inflation Reduction Act IRA The respective pushes have pitted them against moderates wary of vital Medicaid cuts and Republican lawmakers whose districts have businesses that have benefited from the tax relief Meanwhile moderates in high-cost-of-living areas have also pushed for larger state and local tax SALT deduction caps which red state Republicans have largely dismissed as subsidies to high-tax blue states The Republicans in those seats however have argued that it s an existential issue for their districts where GOP victories were critical to winning and holding the House majority But even after it passes the House Republicans there likely won t be done with the big beautiful bill Republican senators have already signaled they are likely going to make changes to the bill Johnson noted on Fox News Sunday that House and Senate leaders were in close coordination on the final product adding we hope that they don t make plenty of modifications to it Any changes will have to go through the House again identical bills must pass both chambers before getting signed into law by Trump Republican leaders have stated they hope to get a bill on the president s desk by Fourth of July