President Donald Trump’s ambitious new tax & spending bill ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ hit a roadblock Friday after it failed to clear the House Budget Committee—a major setback for House Republican leadership that threatens to derail a broader floor vote scheduled for next week.
The legislation, hailed by Trump as his “big, beautiful bill,” is a sweeping policy package shaped by 11 House committees. It includes provisions aimed at securing the southern border, overhauling immigration law, lowering taxes, expanding energy production, boosting national defense, and raising the debt ceiling—all pillars of Trump’s 2025 America First agenda.
BREAKING: House Budget Committee fails to advance GOP Tax & Spending Bill, 16-21.
A key House committee on Friday failed to advance House Republicans’ massive tax-and-spending bill after hard-line conservatives bucked President Donald Trump and blocked the bill over cost… pic.twitter.com/rEvXfsd2iF
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But despite broad support from the GOP base, the bill stumbled in committee after several conservative Republicans withheld their support. Reps. Chip Roy (R-TX), Josh Brecheen (R-OK), Andrew Clyde (R-GA), and Ralph Norman (R-SC) all voted against the bill, citing concerns that key fiscal reforms—including changes to Medicaid and the rollback of Biden-era green