A mega bill that covers the legislative agenda of President Donald Trump seems to be in danger, since several Republican hard funds indicated on Thursday their opposition to advance in the package outside the Chamber Budget Committee at the end of this week.
“I am voting no,” republican representative Ralph Norman said Thursday afternoon, citing concerns about the bill that adds to a fans.
Since republican representative Brandon Gill is expected to be absent, the Republican party can only be allowed to lose a vote in the budget committee of the House of Representatives to advance the bill. The committee is scheduled to convene Friday morning.
Representative Ralph Norman talks to journalists when he arrives for a meeting of Republican Caucus of the Chamber at the United States Capitol on May 15, 2025 in Washington, DC
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Norman, who has twisted his arm to align on more than one occasion, said that Republican fellow Chip Roy plans to vote no and “thinks” the Republican representative Andrew Clyde de Georgia will also vote against advancing in the bill. Oklahoma’s republican representative, Josh Brecheen, a member of the Chamber Budget Committee, seemed skeptical about the bill in the future.
“We have the duty to know the true cost of this legislation before moving forward. If we really want to operate, we must have true numbers, even if that means taking more time to obtain that truth,” he said about X, echoing similar concerns raised by Roy.
The Republicans “will return to work” if the bill fails outside the committee on Friday, Norman said.
The president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, Republican of LA-LA.
“Let’s see some numbers tonight,” he said. “Keep this advancing.”
If the bill comes out of the committee, Johnson still faces a difficult path ahead, since the republican majority can resist three votes from within their ranks before losing enough support for the passage. The effort to approve the bill backed by Trump is another crucial test of Johnson’s relief while working to unify his divided conference.
“Tomorrow we will have a meeting of the Budget Committee,” said Johnson, added that he has not asked Trump for help to obtain some of the hard funds to support the legislation. “That is the plan.”
President Mike Johnson talks to journalists when he leaves the house of the house at the United States Capitol, on May 15, 2025 in Washington.
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The earliest Thursday, Johnson held a high -risk meeting to resolve the remaining conflict points related to Medicaid and tax reform, key components of the “Big Beaut Beautiful Bill” Law, which until now has prevented leadership from blocking enough support for the approval of the bill.
Johnson told journalists after the meeting that Republicans had “a very reflective discussion,” and added that he plans to work during the weekend to reach what has been a elusive consensus on the salt limits, the amount of state and local taxes that can be canceled in federal tax declarations, as moderate extract a red line that opposes the limit of $ 30,000 proposed on those deductions.
“I think everyone would agree that it was productive and that we are moving the ball,” said Johnson, added that he is striving “to fulfill the equilibrium point with which everyone can be satisfied.”
President Mike Johnson talks to journalists when he leaves the house of the house at the United States Capitol, on May 15, 2025 in Washington.
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On Thursday morning, the Chamber Republicans formally presented the text of the “A great bill“-A mega invoice of 1,116 pages.
Johnson said previously that he is not moving on the goal of the Fallen Day to send the mega bill of the house.
Johnson said that Republicans aim to approve the package of a “neutral way of deficit” when the package will be pressed by billions of dollars to the deficit.
“If you do more about salt, you have to find more in savings,” he said.
