{"id":137975,"date":"2025-05-19T06:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T06:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/key-house-committee-advances-trump-agenda-bill-after-appeasing-conservatives-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T06:24:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T06:24:00","slug":"key-house-committee-advances-trump-agenda-bill-after-appeasing-conservatives-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/key-house-committee-advances-trump-agenda-bill-after-appeasing-conservatives-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Key House committee advances Trump agenda bill after appeasing conservatives – NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WASHINGTON \u2014 The House Budget Committee advanced President Donald Trump\u2019s multitrillion-dollar domestic policy package Sunday night, two days after a group of conservatives voted to reject it<\/a>.
The vote was 17-16 along party lines, with the four Republicans who opposed the bill in committee Friday voting “present.”
The outcome is a positive sign for the massive party-line bill after a significant setback Friday, but it will still need changes before it secures the votes to pass the full House. And if it does, it will face plenty of challenges in the Senate<\/a>, where Republicans have made it clear it won’t pass without major changes.
The package includes a major spending increase for immigration enforcement and the military, and it would extend Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, which are scheduled to expire at the end of this year. It includes a series of cuts to Medicaid, food assistance and clean energy funding to pay for the trillions of dollars in tax cuts and new red ink.
The successful vote was a product of Republican leaders\u2019 making inroads over the weekend with conservative hard-liners who said the bill failed to achieve meaningful spending cuts and would increase the U.S. deficit. Those conservatives have insisted that Medicaid work requirements take effect immediately and that the clean energy tax credits be eliminated sooner.
\u201cI\u2019m excited about the changes we made, and I will vote present,\u201d one of the conservative hard-liners, Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., said before the vote. He ignored questions from committee members about what changes he was referring to.
Norman, along with Reps. Chip Roy of Texas, Andrew Clyde of Georgia and Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma, all voted “present.” They voted against the bill Friday, preventing it from advancing.
The committee’s top Democrat, Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania, began by asking Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, to be transparent with the committee about what “side deals” were struck to flip votes.
\u201cDeliberations continue at this very moment. They will continue on into the week and I suspect right up until we put this big, beautiful bill on the floor of the House,\u201d Arrington said. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to disclose the deliberations. I\u2019m not sure I could disclose all the deliberations.\u201d
\u201cI don\u2019t know anything about the side deals or any deal,” he said, adding that there is no score on deficits and impact from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
Arrington added in response to inquiries about what changed in the bill, \u201cThere are no formal or final changes.\u201d
Roy said on X<\/a> that the changes included making the Medicaid work requirements \u2014\u00a0currently scheduled to take effect in 2029 \u2014 kick in sooner and reducing \u201cthe availability of future subsidies\u201d for clean energy.
\u201cBut the bill does not yet meet the moment,\u201d Roy said, adding, \u201cWe can and must do better before we pass the final product.\u201d
House GOP leaders struck an optimistic note earlier in the day.
“We\u2019re on track, working around the clock to deliver this nation-shaping legislation for the American people as soon as possible. … This really is once-in-a-generation opportunity that we have here,” Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said <\/a>on “Fox News Sunday<\/a>.<\/a>“<\/a>
Johnson said he expects the package will move to the Rules Committee by the middle of the week and to the House floor by the end of the week, so House Republicans can meet their self-imposed Memorial Day deadline for final passage.
Sahil Kapur is a senior national political reporter for NBC News.
Scott Wong is a senior congressional reporter for NBC News.
Kyle Stewart is a field producer covering Congress for NBC News.
Syedah Asghar is a Capitol Hill researcher for NBC News and is based in Washington, D.C.
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