The House Budget Committee advanced the Republican budget reconciliation bill Sunday night after three days of negotiations brought enough additional cost-saving proposals to convince four GOP budget hawks to reverse their initial opposition.
The bill passed by a 17-16 margin, with all Democrats on the committee voting against it. The bill, if it passes the full House and Senate, would fulfill a number of President Donald Trump’s campaign promises, such as extending his 2017 tax cuts and funding border security.
The four Republican holdouts, who previously voted down the bill and had demanded it be amended to frontload savings in Medicaid and eliminate Biden-era green energy subsidies, are now allowing what Trump calls the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” to advance.
Four voted “present”: Ralph Norman of South Carolina, Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma, Andrew Clyde of…
