The House Budget Committee plans to try again Sunday night to advance the GOP’s expansive reconciliation package after four Republican dissenters torpedoed the measure at a markup Friday.
Within hours of the Budget panel’s 16-21 vote rejecting the bill earlier Friday, Chairman Jodey C. Arrington, R-Texas, called for a second session on Sunday at 10 p.m. The announcement came shortly after promising members they could spend the weekend with their families and that the panel wouldn’t reconvene until Monday morning.
The decision to schedule a second vote so quickly — before House leaders could cut a deal with their detractors — underscored the determination of GOP leadership to keep the bill on an aggressive timeline, with a House floor vote expected next week.
