Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Passes In Second Attempt Of Key Vote

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.

In a second attempt late Sunday night, President Donald Trump’s bill prevailed in a critical committee vote after House GOP leadership managed to placate a handful of Republican deficit hawks who held out in the first go-around.

The House Budget Committee advanced the package in a 17-16 vote along party lines while four conservative defectors from last time voted “present.”

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told reporters shortly before the Sunday vote that talks had been “great” and “minor modifications” were made over the weekend. The exact details were not immediately known.

Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) asserted during the meeting late Sunday that he could not say what might be changing, emphasizing that the situation was fluid.

One of the erstwhile holdouts, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), suggested the breakthrough had to do with moving Medicaid work requirements forward and reducing “green new scam” subsidies.

However, Roy also said he had lingering objections linked to the same programs, warning the spending “ultimately increases the likelihood of continuing deficits and non-Obamacare-expansion states like Texas expanding in the future.”

The bill is processing through Congress via the reconciliation process, aiming to provide funding for Trump’s domestic priorities, retain the 2017 tax cuts, raise the debt limit, and more.

Johnson said during a “Fox News Sunday” interview that the next step in “the plan,” after a successful House Budget Committee vote, is to move the bill to the Rules Committee by midweek followed by a House floor by the end of the week.

Doing that, the speaker told Fox News anchor Shannon Bream, would allow House lawmakers to “meet our initial, our original Memorial Day deadline.”