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Bulwark Takes

GOP Hardliners Trash Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Politics, News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump’s “big beautiful” budget bill just crashed spectacularly in the House, sabotaged by Republicans themselves. Andrew Egger and Joe Perticone break down this major defeat for the President, the chaos unleashed by GOP infighting, and what’s next for Trump’s agenda as Congress scrambles to clean up this mess.

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0:00.0

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0:22.3

Crazy stuff happening on Capitol Hill this morning. Donald Trump's big, beautiful bill,

0:26.8

was heading for the Budget Committee for what was supposed to be a kind of pro forma procedural

0:30.8

vote ahead of the real hard thing, which was getting it passed through the House of Representatives.

0:35.4

Instead, that vote just failed in the Budget Committee.

0:38.9

They took a vote, and it went down 16 to 21 with five Republicans congressmen voting against

0:47.5

it, Representatives Clyde, Roy, Breachin, Norman, and Smucker.

0:52.2

We're going to talk about all this, what this means for the budget.

0:55.2

What's going on with all this stuff here to talk about our congressional reporter Joe

0:58.9

Perticokeone.

0:59.8

Joe, what's going on in the budget committee today?

1:03.1

Smucker has aided in putting them in a jam right now.

1:07.8

Just wanted to say that.

1:10.4

Yeah, this is, you know, this is just classic Republican infighting.

1:15.4

What happens now is they kind of have to go back to the drawing board here. So they have

1:21.2

this budget resolution, which they passed earlier in the year, which didn't actually do anything.

1:25.3

It just laid out a blueprint for justifying their

1:28.9

tax cuts through this budget process. And through this process, basically, they're, they still

1:34.4

have to find these cuts in certain areas. And now they've hit a huge snag. So this, this thing

1:43.0

failing at the committee stage is huge. And the fact that

1:45.8

they allowed it to be voted on at the committee stage, they could have just delayed it while

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