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It is Saturday, May the 17th.

We begin this morning with the latest setback for Donald Trump's sweeping second-term agenda.

Yesterday, the Republican-dominated House Budget Committee voted against sending the president's one big

beautiful bill to the floor for a full vote. Now, just so you know, I'm not being sarcastic here.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act isn't Trump hyperbole. It's the actual official name of the multi-trillion

dollar reconciliation package that Republicans are trying to pass in order to fund

the president's ambitious agenda. It's momentarily, its momentary defeat came at the hands of a,

of a few members of Donald Trump's own party. Ahead of the Budget Committee's meeting,

President Trump took to social media to urge Republicans to unite behind the bill, a sign that

there was still some trouble

ahead. He wrote, quote, we don't need grandstanders in the Republican Party. Stop talking

and get it done. But that was not enough to sway a handful of holdouts. Four Republican

Congressman, Chip Roy, Ralph Norman, Josh Breachin, and Andrew Clyde still voted no to

advance the bill. A fifth Republican, Lloyd Smucker, supports the bill, but he voted no for

procedural reasons in order to be able to bring the bill back up for consideration at a later

date. But the four holdouts who tanked this version of the bill

are deficit hawks. They're part of a group of lawmakers in the House who are pushing the

conference to make deeper spending cuts to reduce the deficit and extend Donald Trump's tax

cuts. Members of the Republican Congress, or at least some other members of the Republican

Conference, are reluctant to go that far.

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