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President Donald Trump’s “One, Big, Beautiful Bill” cleared the House Budget Committee late on Sunday evening after it had failed on Friday.
The vote came after four of the conservatives who opposed the legislation on Friday, switched their votes to “present,” despite the fact that the bill is virtually the same.
This came despite the fact that Democrats on the committee questioned what changes came to the legislation after the failed vote on Friday.
The bill will now head to the House Rules Committee, which will tee it up for a final vote on the floor of the U.S House of Representatives.
“I think it's important that all the members have the full details on that in advance of any vote, so that way we know in a transparent, honest way, exactly what we're voting,” Rep. Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania, the ranking Democrat on the Budget Committee, asked Chairman Jodey Arrington of Texas.
But Arrington said that the legislation was unchanged.
“I couldn't tell you what is in flux, what is fixed, what might change or not change,” Arrington said. “This process is fluid, and it will go to the Rules Committee, most likely there will be some changes, and that's the way the process goes.”
The legislation would extend the 2017 tax cuts that Trump signed and put in place new tax cuts, such as the president’s proposal to remove taxes on tips. In addition, it would ramp up spending for oil drilling, immigration enforcement and the US military.
But conservatives voted against the bill on Friday because it would not enact work requirements for Medicaid--the health care program for poor people, pregnant women, children and people with disabilities--for able-bodied adults without children until 2029 and because it did not more aggressively roll back renewable energy credits signed by President Joe Biden.
Democrats have railed against the changes to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP, to pay for tax cuts.
Republicans have only a two-seat majority in the House of Representatives and only 53 seats in the Senate, which is not enough to break a filibuster, the 60-vote threshold that most legislation requires now. Thus, they plan to pass the legislation through a process known as reconciliation, which allows for legislation to pass with a simple majority as long as it relates to the budget.