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House Budget Committee markup ends without reporting reconciliation bill after partisan clash
Summary
The House Budget Committee considered a sweeping fiscal 2025 reconciliation package — dubbed the "1 Big Beautiful Bill" — but failed to report it to the House after a recorded vote and rejected multiple nonbinding motions to alter the bill or change scoring conventions.
The House Committee on the Budget met in a marathon markup to consider a fiscal-year-2025 reconciliation package — described repeatedly by Republican members as the “1 Big Beautiful Bill” and presented as the committee’s implementation vehicle for H.Con.Res.14 — but the panel did not move the measure to the House floor after a recorded vote of 16 ayes to 21 noes at the end of the session.
Chairman Arrington opened the session by describing the bill as the committee’s reconciliation product under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and saying the committee would report recommendations submitted by authorizing committees pursuant to Title 2 of H.Con.Res.14. “This reconciliation bill is the principal legislative vehicle for advancing the full America First agenda,” he said in opening remarks, urging members to advance the package without substantive revision.
Ranking Member Boyle said Democrats would oppose the bill, calling it “the biggest tax cuts for billionaires in American history” and citing a nonpartisan estimate that changes in the package would result in millions losing health coverage. “The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office just this week confirmed that at least 13,700,000 Americans will lose their health care if the GOP bill for billionaires becomes law,” Boyle said.
Republican vice chair Lloyd Smucker moved to order the bill reported favorably, but the committee’s final recorded tally at the end of the markup was 16 ayes and 21 noes, and the motion failed. Earlier in the markup the chair conducted multiple voice votes and announced several outcomes, but members on both sides requested recorded roll calls. Pursuant to a unanimous-consent agreement, roll-call requests on the motion to report and on several motions to instruct were postponed for an end-of-markup roll call; the subsequent roll call on reporting the bill returned a 16–21 result against reporting.
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