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

House Republicans unveil more details of their big, beautiful reconciliation bill,

including their plans for the tax code and the Medicaid health insurance program.

But has Speaker Mike Johnson managed to bridge the GOP divisions enough to get this over the line.

And what of this is good policy and what can the Senate ditch?

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

We're joined today by my colleagues editorial board member Kate Batchelder O'Dell and columnist Alicia Finley.

Three big House committees are set today to mark up their portions

of the big reconciliation bill that the narrow GOP majority wants to use to pass its priorities

and President Trump's agenda. They include the Ways and Means Committee, which has jurisdiction

over America's mess of a tax code, and on Monday, that committee dropped the

details of its proposal. As a reminder, big portions of the 2017 tax cut signed by President

Trump are set to phase out at the end of this year, including the lower rates on individual

income tax earners. And so a big part of what is motivating Republicans is that if this

Congress takes no action, that amounts to a tax increase over the next decade of about

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