{"id":34254,"date":"2025-02-25T00:44:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T00:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/trump-budget-bill-in-peril-as-warring-house-gop-factions-threaten-rebellion\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T00:44:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T00:44:28","slug":"trump-budget-bill-in-peril-as-warring-house-gop-factions-threaten-rebellion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/trump-budget-bill-in-peril-as-warring-house-gop-factions-threaten-rebellion\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump budget bill in peril as warring House GOP factions threaten rebellion"},"content":{"rendered":"

House Republicans’ mammoth budget reconciliation bill is in peril<\/a> on Monday evening with at least two GOP lawmakers threatening to vote against it.<\/p>\n

House GOP leaders are hoping to hold a vote Tuesday on a vast bill advancing President Donald Trump’s<\/a> priorities on the border, defense, taxes, and energy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But at least two House Republicans have said they oppose the legislation \u2013 and the GOP’s razor-thin margins mean Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., can only afford one defector to still pass anything along party lines, if all Democratic lawmakers are present.<\/p>\n

Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., told reporters he was against the bill on Monday, the day after Rep. Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., said she was also opposed. Both said they are seeking assurances that Congress is sufficiently committed to cutting government over-spending.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, a group of GOP lawmakers in less ruby-red districts are still undecided over potentially severe cuts to Medicaid<\/a> and other federal programs to offset the cost of Trump’s priorities.<\/p>\n

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., told reporters there was “somewhere between six and 10” House Republicans who needed more clarity on where spending cuts will fall.<\/p>\n

“If I don’t get answers, I’m not going to vote for it,” Malliotakis said. “But if I can get some clarity and assurances, then you know, we’re moving a little bit more toward the \u2018yes\u2019 column.”<\/p>\n

Malliotakis said on the way into Johnson’s office Monday that there was “a lot of seniors and people with disabilities” in her district, “and I want to make sure they’re not gonna get harmed in this process.”<\/p>\n

Rep. Juan Ciscomani, R-Ariz., who was also part of that meeting, called it “helpful” but did not commit to supporting the bill.<\/p>\n

Malliotakis and Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, also said they were still undecided when leaving the meeting.<\/p>\n

Spartz is also expected to meet with Johnson at some point Monday to discuss her stance.<\/p>\n

Burchett, however, told reporters he had no current plans to speak with Johnson about his opposition \u2013 but left room to be persuaded.<\/p>\n

“I would like to see a commitment that we’re going to go after [spending cuts],” Burchett said. “When we say we’re decreasing the rate of growth, we’re still growing. And again, can we not just go back to pre-COVID spending levels?”<\/p>\n

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., also signaled he was against the bill, writing on X, “If the Republican budget passes, the deficit gets worse, not better.”<\/p>\n

House and Senate Republicans are aiming to use their majorities to pass a broad swath of Trump policies, from more border security funding to eliminating taxes on tipped and overtime wages, via the budget reconciliation process.<\/p>\n

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By leveling thresholds for passage in the House and Senate at a simple majority, reconciliation allows the party in power to pass fiscal legislation without any support from the opposing side. The Senate has a two-thirds majority threshold to advance most measures.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The bill aims to increase spending on border security, the judiciary and defense by roughly $300 billion, while seeking at least $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion in spending cuts elsewhere.<\/p>\n

As written, the bill also provides $4.5 trillion to extend Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts<\/u><\/a> and Jobs Act (TCJA) provisions, which expire at the end of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

House Republicans’ mammoth budget reconciliation bill is in peril on Monday evening with at least two GOP lawmakers threatening to vote against it. House GOP leaders are hoping to hold a vote Tuesday on a vast bill advancing President Donald Trump’s priorities on the border, defense, taxes, and energy.\u00a0 But at least two House Republicans … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}