Conservatives block Trump's big bill in the breathtaking setback

Washington (AP) – In a massive setback, the Republicans failed on Friday to drive their big ones Package of tax breaks and spending cuts Through the household committee, a handful of conservatives joined all democrats to vote against it.

The right -wing extremist legislators insist, among other things, on steeper expenses at Medicaid and the environmentally friendly energy supply breaks before they support the support of Greens President Donald Trump “Nice” bill. They warn that tax cuts would stack the nation's $ 36 trillion alone.

The failed coordination 16-21, stands for the moment, house Speaker Mike Johnson Press the package approved next week. But the Holdout legislators promised to negotiate changes all weekend, while the Republican President returns to Washington The Middle East.

“Something has to change or you won't get my support,” said Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas.

Count a whopping 1,116 pages, The only big beautiful Bill ActNamed with an allusion to Trump, fluctuates in a critical moment.

The conservatives keep up steeper cuts While GOP legislators from high tax states, including New York, demand a deeper tax deduction, which is known as salt, for their voters. Johnson insisted with a few voices in front of his slim majority that the Republicans are on the right track with the extensive package, which he believes A fluctuating economy.

Before the voice on Friday, Trump had flyed to his party to bring himself into harmony.

“The Republicans have to unite”, who have a big nice bill! “” We don't need stands in the Republican Party. Stop talking and do it! “

The Democrats hit the package as a “big, bad calculation” or as a rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash.

They emphasized that millions of people would support their health insurance and food brands if the legislation passes, while the richest Americans would benefit enormous tax cuts. They also said that it would increase future deficits.

“This is a bad economy. It is incomprehensible,” said Rep. Brendan Boyle, the top democratic legislator of the committee.

The Budget committee is one of the last stops before the package is sent to the full house floor to vote, which is expected the next week. As a rule, the task of the budget committee is more administrative, since the work of 11 committees compiled that created various parts of the large law.

But the meeting on Friday, however, turned out to be significant before the voices were rated. The conservatives, many from the Freedom Caucus, had warned that they would block the legislative template, using their leverage to request further changes. The Republicans have a slim majority in the house and only have a few votes to advance the measure.

Four Republican conservatives initially voted against the package – Roy and Reps. Ralph Norman from South Carolina, Josh Brecheen from Oklahoma, Rep. Andrew Clyde from Georgia. Then one, Rep. Lloyd Smucker from Pennsylvania, changed his voice to no.

“Unfortunately,” said Norman, “I am a difficult no until we have been beating it.”

The conservatives are particularly Medicaid in mindThe health program for around 70 million Americans. You want new work requirements for the recipients of help immediately and not on January 1, 2029, as the package suggests.

Smucker then said that he was confident: “We'll do it.”

At the same time, the New Yorkers asked their demand for a much larger salt deduction than the demand proposed in the invoice, which could drive up the total cost of the package. These conversations are also in progress.

In the invoice, the invoice proposes the invoice that currently triples an upper limit for the state and local tax deduction of 10,000 US dollars, which increases it to $ 400,000 per year to $ 30,000 for common filers.

Rep. Nick Lalota, one of the New York legislators who leads the salt efforts, said they proposed a deduction of 62,000 US dollars for individual filers and $ 124,000 for common filers.

The conservatives and the New Yorkers are dining and jockey for their priorities when Johnson works to keep the package on the track to hand over the house to the Memorial Day and then to the Senate.

In essence, the extensive package extends The existing income tax cuts which were approved in Trump's first term in 2017 and adds new ones for which the President fought in 2024, including No taxes on tipsOvertime payment and some car loans.

It increases some tax breaks for earnings with medium-sized incomes, including a further standard deduction of $ 32,000 for joint filters and a temporary increase in the tax credit of $ 500, which increases it to $ 2,500.

It also offers an infusion of 350 billion US dollars for Trump's deportation agenda and the support of the Pentagon.

To compensate for more than 5 million US dollars for lost income, the package suggests winning other tax reliefs, namely, namely, namely The green energy tax non -fonts Approved as part of the inflation reduction law of President Joe Biden. Some conservatives want them to end immediately.

The package is also intended to cover the costs by reducing more than $ 1 trillion from health and nutritional support programs over the course of a decade by partly able to work for adults.

Certain Medicaid recipients would have to enter into 80 hours per month work or other community options to receive health care. Older Americans, who receive food aid as part of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program known as Snap, would also be able to work for participants' current work requirements without expanding the relatives to be around 55 to 64 years. States also have to shoulder a larger proportion of the program's costs.

The impartial congress household office estimates at least 7.6 million people with health insurance and about 3 million per month fewer SnAP recipients with the changes.

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Associated Press Writer Leah Askarinam contributed to this report.