The House Rules Committee late Wednesday night advanced the GOP’s bill of President Trump’s legislative priorities, sending the legislation to the floor for consideration after a marathon meeting that stretched nearly 22 hours.
The panel voted 8-4 to advance the measure — officially titled the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” — including a series of last-minute changes to the sprawling measure designed to appease blue-state moderates and hardline conservatives who withheld support from the legislation.
The “big, beautiful bill” now heads to the House floor, where the full body will debate the measure with hopes of holding a vote and passing the legislation out of the lower chamber, and sending it to the Senate by Memorial Day.
The legislation’s centerpiece is an extension of the tax cuts Trump enacted in 2017, in addition to energy policy, Medicaid changes and a $4 trillion debt limit increase, among other provisions.
The committee gaveled in shortly after 1 a.m. Wednesday morning — a result of Republican leadership aiming to pass the bill on the House floor as soon as possible, House timing rules, and an unusual Sunday late-night Budget Committee vote to advance the bill to overcome a roadblock from hardline conservatives days earlier.
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