From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

The GOP's one big, beautiful reconciliation bill gets voted down by the House Budget Committee

amid a revolt by fiscal conservatives who say it doesn't go far enough.

What does Speaker Mike Johnson do next

since he's been trying to meet a Memorial Day deadline to get the GOP's agenda through?

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by my colleagues,

columnist Kim Strassel, and editorial board member Manet Uquay-Brua.

The House Budget Committee's task on Friday morning was to stitch together the separate

bills for the big, beautiful reconciliation package that the individual committees have worked up,

including the tax section that had gone through the Ways and Means

Committee, the Medicaid section that went through the Energy and Commerce Committee.

But the surprise on Friday was a revolt by Republicans blocking the bill.

The vote on the House Budget Committee was 16 and 21 against the nose, including Republicans Chip Roy of Texas, Ralph Norman of South Carolina,

and Andrew Clyde of Georgia. Let's listen to a clip of one of those dissenters. This is Congressman

Chip Roy. We are making promises that we cannot keep. We do need to reform it. We need to stop

giving seven times as much money to the able-bodied over the vulnerable.

Why are we sticking it to the vulnerable population, the disabled and the sick, to give money to single able-bodied male adults?

We shouldn't do that.

We should reform it.

But guess what?

That message needs to be delivered to my colleagues on this side of the aisle, too.

We are writing checks. We cannot cash. And our children are going to pay the price.

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