Republicans on the House Budget Committee failed to pass President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”
Reps. Chip Roy (TX), Josh Brecheen (OK), Andrew Clyde (GA), and Ralph Norman (SC) voted against the measure. Rep. Lloyd Smucker (PA) changed his vote from “yes” to “no.” The final vote was 16-21.
Roy stated that the bill “falls profoundly short.”
“It does not do what we say it does with respect to deficits. The fact of the matter is, on the spending, what we’re dealing with here is tax cuts and spending a massive front-loaded deficit increase,” Roy said. “That’s the truth. That’s the truth. Deficits will go up in the first half of the 10-year budget window. And we all know it’s true, and we shouldn’t do that. We shouldn’t say that we’re doing something we’re not doing.”
Ahead of the vote, Trump wrote on Truth Social that Republicans “MUST UNITE” behind the bill. “Not only does it cut Taxes for ALL Americans, but it will kick millions of Illegal Aliens off of Medicaid to PROTECT it for those who are the ones in real need. The Country will suffer greatly without this Legislation, with their Taxes going up 65%. It will be blamed on the Democrats, but that doesn’t help our Voters. We don’t need ‘GRANDSTANDERS’ in the Republican Party. STOP TALKING, AND GET IT DONE! It is time to fix the MESS that Biden and the Democrats gave us. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
The bill includes provisions allowing individuals to deduct up to $10,000 in overtime earnings from taxable income, with married couples eligible for up to $20,000. These deductions phase out for individuals earning over $100,000 and couples over $200,000. The bill also seeks to make permanent the 2017 Trump-era tax cuts, increase the standard deduction and child tax credit, and introduce deductions for auto loan interest.
