All right, it is Saturday, May 17th. We begin this hour 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 big beautiful bill to the floor for a full

congressional vote. By the way, the one big beautiful bill act isn't just 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 agenda.

And its momentary defeat came at the hands of 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 for

Republican Congressman Chip Roy, Ralph Norman, Josh Breachan, and Andrew Clyde still voted no on

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

procedural reasons in order to bring the bill back up for consideration at a later date.

But the four holdouts who tanked the 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 yet steeper spending cuts

to reduce the deficit and to extend

Trump's tax cuts, which by the way are kind of possibly mutually exclusive. But some other

members of the Republican conference are reluctant to go that far. Those spending cuts could come at

the expense of Medicaid recipients who could see major changes much sooner than initially planned.

The Budget Committee says it will reconvene to take up the bill tomorrow night.

The funding fight in Congress comes at a time when the outlook for America's economy remains uncertain.

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