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Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Rejected By GOP-Led House Committee

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    Fiscal fractures within the GOP torpedo Trump-backed budget…

    President Trump’s 2025 budget proposal — branded the “Big Beautiful Bill” — was dealt a devastating blow on Friday when the House Budget Committee voted it down in a 16–21 decision. All Democrats opposed it, but the decisive factor was a group of Republicans who broke ranks, citing concerns about federal debt and spending.


    The Proposal: Sweeping Trump Agenda, Big Price Tag

    The bill laid out a sweeping fiscal roadmap aligned with Trump’s priorities for a transformative second term: deep tax cuts, uncompromising immigration enforcement, increased defense spending, and accelerated domestic energy production. But its projected $2.5 trillion increase to the federal deficit over the next decade drew fire — even from within the GOP.

    Just days before the vote, a nonpartisan budget analysis warned that the proposal would exacerbate the national debt, which already exceeds $36 trillion. As Fox News reports, that forecast gave fiscal conservatives new ammunition to push back ahead of today’s committee meeting:

    The committee met on Friday to mark up and debate the bill, a massive piece of legislation that’s a product of 11 different House committees’ individual efforts to craft policy under their jurisdictions. The result is a wide-ranging bill that advances Trump’s priorities on the border, immigration, taxes, energy, defense and raising the debt limit.

    Emotions ran high in the hallway outside the House Budget Committee’s meeting room from the outset, however, giving the media little indication of how events would transpire.

    Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, who had been at home with his wife and newborn baby, surprised reporters when he arrived at the Cannon House Office Building after he was initially expected to miss the committee meeting.

    His appearance gave House GOP leaders some added wiggle room, allowing the committee to lose two Republican votes and still pass the bill, rather than just one.

    Office of Speaker Mike Johnson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

    In the end, five Republican committee members voted against the bill:

    • Chip Roy (Texas)
    • Andrew Clyde (Georgia)
    • Lloyd Smucker (Pennsylvania)
    • Josh Brecheen (Oklahoma)
    • Ralph Norman (South Carolina)

    Smucker, who initially supported the measure, reversed his position and voted “no” at the last minute — adding insult to injury for supporters of the president’s agenda.

    The vote underscores a growing tension within the Republican Party: Are Trump’s populist, big-ticket proposals increasingly at odds with traditional conservative budget hawks who prioritize fiscal restraint? Only time will tell.

    3 COMMENTS

    1. It’s interesting, the Republicans get full control of government and act as if they arer the minority party. Then they come to me for donations. Can’t you guys get together on anything? You have become disgusting with your bickering. President Trump got most of you guys elected and now you won’t give him what he needs. I’m glad I voted for Trump but the next election the Republican candidates will be on the bottom of my list.

    2. HISTORY DOESN’T LIE! BUT POLITICIANS DO!

      “its projected $2.5 trillion increase to the federal deficit over the next decade drew fire”

      As it should have! That said, in the end, it’s a real safe bet, that it, or a reduced version, will be passed by Congress.

      History doesn’t lie! But politicians do! Case in point – Donald J. Trump who ran his campaign on a promise to reduce (even eliminate), not raise, the federal deficit.

      Had instead the constitutional framers (like their early 1600’s predecessors) established government and society on the Bible’s immutable/unchanging moral law (including its economic and taxing statutes), there would never be a deficit (if ever) for longer than seven years.

      For more on how the Bible’s triune and integral moral law (the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments) apply and should be implemented as the law of the land, see free online book “Law & Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant” at bible versus constitution dot org. Go to our Online Book page and scroll down to title.

      Then, at the same location, “A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government.”

      See also, Chapter 25 “Amendment 16: Graduated Income Tax vs. Flat Increase Tax” of free online book “Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.” Click on the top entry on our Online Book page and scroll down to Chapter 25.

      Find out how much you really know about the Constitution as compared to the Bible. Take our 10-question Constitution Survey in the sidebar and receive a free copy of the 85-page “Primer” of “BL vs. USC.”

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