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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The GOP Holdouts on Donald Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The House Budget Committee votes down the Republican reconciliation package, amid a revolt by fiscal conservatives, including Rep. Chip Roy. What are their objections, and does Speaker Mike Johnson have a way to placate them without upsetting a different GOP faction? Meantime, Republican Senators are voicing a range of their own complaints about the House's handiwork. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.0

But DC politicians want to change that with the Durban Marshall Credit Card Bill.

0:08.0

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0:13.0

allowing them to use untested payment networks that jeopardize your data security and rewards.

0:18.0

Corporate megastores will make more money and you pay the price. Tell

0:22.2

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0:28.9

your card.com.

0:29.9

From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. The GOP's one big, beautiful

0:41.2

reconciliation bill gets voted down by the House Budget Committee amid a revolt by fiscal

0:47.3

conservatives who say it doesn't go far enough. What does Speaker Mike Johnson do next

0:52.7

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

0:58.1

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

1:02.0

We're joined today by my colleagues, columnist Kim Strassel, and editorial board member Manet Uquay-Brua.

1:09.0

The House Budget Committee's task on Friday morning was to

1:13.2

stitch together the separate bills for the big, beautiful reconciliation package that the

1:19.6

individual committees have worked up, including the tax section that had gone through the

1:24.2

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

1:33.8

the bill. The vote on the House Budget Committee was 16 and 21 against the nose, including

1:40.6

Republicans Chip Roy of Texas, Ralph Norman of South Carolina, and Andrew Clyde of Georgia.

1:47.9

Let's listen to a clip of one of those dissenters. This is Congressman Chip Roy.

1:51.4

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

1:56.3

seven times as much money to the able body over the vulnerable. Why are we sticking it to the vulnerable

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