The Senate's budget-reconciliation package aimed for swift approval in the House to meet a deadline before the July 4 holiday. However, internal disagreements within the House Republican caucus have stalled progress. Speaker Mike Johnson initially planned a rapid vote, but opposition has emerged from moderates concerned about Medicaid cuts and fiscal conservatives alarmed by the Senate's increased deficits. The House Freedom Caucus publicly expressed dissent, complicating efforts to unite support for the bill within the Republican Party.
There is certainly plenty to hate for all kinds of Republicans. Swing-district 'moderates' upset about the Medicaid cuts in the House-passed bill saw them grow deeper in the Senate.
Advocates of a big increase in the SALT deduction saw it get watered down in the upper chamber. And most of all, self-styled fiscal hawks who had grumbled that the House version of the megabill didn't cut budget deficits enough freaked out when the Senate version spilled over $3 trillion in fresh red ink.
Instead of jamming the House, Trump & Co. seem to have been jammed by the House itself.
The number of House Republicans who have problems with it is not small enough to bribe or bully into compliance.
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