The Republicans met early when they started making a massive invoice for Trump's agenda

Washington – The Republicans are already meeting a few hooks when they start comprehensive domestic political agenda. And you haven't even made some of your most difficult decisions so far.

The house committees of a two -week recess have started and have started to mark their respective parts of the package, in which the tax cuts of Trump expanded in 2017, the financing for enforcing immigration and the military is to be increased and the debt limit is to be increased. In search of steep savings to pay for everything, the Republicans start with some of the lowest fruits when it comes to spending cuts.

However, this process has already triggered some skirmishes among the Republican legislators and offers a preview of the larger intrapartic fights.

MP Sam Graves, R-Mo., The Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, was forced on Wednesday in the eleventh hour to get a determination from the part of the package of his package, which, after the conservative, would have created a new annual fee of $ 20 for almost all passenger vehicles.

Regardless of this, a move by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., Trib.

And the chairman Tim Walberg, R-Mich, the most controversial part of this overhaul, said Walberg, was a “risk division” that would blame colleges, universities and trading schools for unpaid weight balance of student loans.

“All committees make difficult decisions and we will build this bill,” said Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, Chairman of the Republican Study Committee, the largest Caucus of Conservatives on the Capitol Hill.

After the Republicans can fill out the details of the Republicans from House, the Republicans of the Republicans of Trump are trying for Trump's “One Big Beautiful Bill” at the beginning of this month.

The spokesman Mike Johnson, R-La., Said that he thinks the house could push all separate pieces together and send the package to the Senate an ambitious but not impossible period until the Memorial Day. But it means that Republican leaders, chairwoman of the committee and the rangers now have the politically difficult discussions about how they can pay for the invoice and what may be reduced.

And the opinion of every house Republican is important due to the fragile 220-213 majority of the party.

“Almost every step of the path was difficult with a small majority,” said majority leader Steve Scalisue, R-La, said reporter and added that he also had “a lot” conversations with senators to ensure that both chambers are on the same side.

The most difficult issue that the Republicans still have to solve is how to deal with potential medicaid cuts against whom in need of protection and moderate Republicans.

The energy and trade committee that monitors the program And is responsible for the fact that the cuts for the invoice find a whopping 880 billion US dollars plans to keep a markup on May 7, but must complete its part of the package. The chairman of the committee met with members from the entire ideological spectrum while trying to find a solution.

But even smaller, less harmless problems can stumble the entire process. The vehicle fee was an example of a problem that was unexpectedly blown up at the last minute. Graves, the chairman of the transport committee, had included the provision in the package of his committee in order to meet the so -called “reconciliation instructions” of the committee, which determine what every committee has to do or spend.

MP Scott Perry, R-Pa., The former chairman of the strong right Freedom Caucus, offered a change to kill him as a conservative as a “auto tax”. The Graves team checked the committee members to measure the support for the fee, said two Republican sources, but it became clear that there was too much opposition, and Graves made the call on Tuesday evening to pull it out of the package.

The committee was then forced to find other ways to achieve its rescue goals. The package now increases an annual fee for electric vehicles to 250 US dollars compared to the originally proposed 200 US dollars and reduced the financing of modernizing air traffic control to $ 12.5 billion compared to the initial $ 15 billion.

“EV owners have not paid anything in the Highway Trust Fund, and now they will rightly become,” said Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas, who spoke out against the 20 dollar passenger fee. “I am very happy that there will be no fees for gasoline vehicles, the owners and drivers of which have already paid their fair proportion through the petrol tax of the Highway Trust in the Highway Trust Fund.”

Another GOP spitting occurred in the Justice Committee for Visa. ISSA, a high -ranking member of the committee, had hoped to sell gold card visa in the idea of ​​Markup Trump on Wednesday, 5 million US dollars, which would offer immigrant law registrations and a way to citizenship.

ISSA argued that the proposal could bring in at least 150 billion US dollars to pay the invoice. But ISSA said that another member of the committee, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, a member of the right-wing extremist Freedom Caucus, effectively inserted the idea.

“I was screwed out of the gold card because some of our members did not agree with an income management in connection with Visa, EB-5 and H-1,” said Issa in an interview on Wednesday. “The point of the president [is] That we should be able to achieve income by making investors invest and we have a program that brings very little in comparison. But chip killed it. “

“I would vote for reconciliation,” added Issa, “but I would be disappointed if it was left out.”

Roy did not answer a request for comments.

However, these types of decisions are the simple. The hard ones will have to be solved in the coming days and weeks. On Wednesday afternoon, Johnson organized a meeting with Republicans from Blue States such as New York, New Jersey and California, who are aggressive to increase the upper limit for deducting the state and local tax (salt) in the package.

The Committee for House Ways and Means, in which this problem is decided, will probably meet at some point in the next week.

“It was a lively discussion, but we are still far from a deal,” said Rep. Nick Lalota, Rn.Y. when he left the almost one -hour salt meeting. “I would like to make sure that we make as many of our mid -range families as possible.”

At Medicaid, the Republicans, who are faced with hard re -election struggles in the 2026 intermediate elections, fear that it is not mathematically possible to achieve their output destinations without a steep reduction in Medicaid, with an estimation of the non -partisan congress office.

Republican leaders said they only want to target waste, fraud and abuse in the Medicaid system. Senator Lindsey Graham, Rs.c., Chairman of the Budget Committee, confirmed a meeting with the Republicans of the House on Wednesday, confirmed that the GOP wants to provide work requirements for the authorization of Medicaid to increase the revenue required to finance Trump's agenda.

“Most Americans will say the whole idea of ​​using Medicaid to help powerful people who could work,” said Graham. “Medicaid should help poor people and disabled people … we had the opportunity to fix it. And if we fail, we will pay a high price.”