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 Lawmakers on the House Budget Committee were summoned back to Washington for a p m meeting to vote on advancing the measure which passed the panel in a nearly party-line vote Speaker Mike Johnson R-La made a surprise appearance at the committee room shortly before the vote began telling reporters We think this is going to go well tonight We're about to find out He stated there would likely be minor modifications to the final bill ANTI-ABORTION PROVIDER MEASURE IN TRUMP'S 'BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL' COULD SPARK HOUSE GOP REBELLIONIt comes after a rebellion by 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 potential subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act IRA would be in the final bill before a House-wide vote Advancing the statute through the House Budget Committee is a largely procedural move Any likely 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 Nevertheless Speaker Mike Johnson R-La signaled confidence on Fox News Sunday that his chamber was on track to hold that House-wide vote toward the end of this week 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 law while utterly 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 rule 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 act to enact his campaign promises on tax cuts immigration force defense and raising the debt limit And while quelling Friday s GOP mutiny is a win 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 ordinance s crackdown on Medicaid which Republicans have mentioned 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 important 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 disclosed Sunday that House and Senate leaders were in close coordination on the final product adding we hope that they don t make various 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 revealed they hope to get a bill on the president s desk by Fourth of July