06/26/2025

House GOP Holdouts Threaten Revolt over Trump and Senate’s Tax Bill

Unsurprisingly, they feel more cuts are necessary

As Senate Republicans eye the finish line on President Donald Trump’s massive tax and immigration proposal, there may be one more obstacle standing in the way of what they hope to be era-defining legislation: their GOP colleagues in the House.

The Senate has transformed a slew of key provisions from the House-passed version of Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" Act, a measure that would extend trillions of dollars in tax cuts, spend hundreds of billions more on immigration enforcement and defense expenditures and slash spending on social benefit and anti-poverty programs that protect the elderly and children.

Now to many House Republicans, the legislation looks unrecognizable — and no longer adheres to hard-fought compromises lawmakers in the lower chamber secured just last month. Overnight Wednesday, that task got more difficult. The GOP may not include many of its initial proposals to jettison immigrants from Medicaid, the Senate parliamentarian ruled, blowing a nearly $250 billion hole into the bill's budget math.

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