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The Latest Breaking News from the Budget Committee

To save Trump’s ‘one big, beautiful bill,’ Republicans disregard the math

ANALYSIS: Analysis: The leadership doesn’t like the debt-exploding numbers of Donald Trump’s proposal exposed by the Congressional Budget Office, Eric Garcia writes

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GOP budget vote goes down to the wire amid conservative pushback - Roll Call

House Republicans appeared stuck in reconciliation limbo as of Wednesday morning with no changes to the text ready to be unveiled, after an all-night Rules Committee session.

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House Budget panel approves reconciliation package on second try - Roll Call

Four House Freedom Caucus members on the Budget Committee who held up the reconciliation package last week reversed course late Sunday night.

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Conservative lawmakers block Trump's 'big, beautiful' tax-cut bill in major setback

A handful of hard-right lawmakers joined all Democrats in voting against a package of tax breaks and spending cuts, insisting on steeper cuts to Medicaid and green energy tax breaks.

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Weekend do-over planned for 'big, beautiful' budget package - Roll Call

The House Budget Committee plans to try again Sunday night to advance the GOP reconciliation package after four Republican dissenters torpedoed the measure at a markup Friday.

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GOP leaders try to keep Friday reconciliation markup on track - Roll Call

House Republicans’ “big, beautiful” reconciliation bill has a Texas-sized problem as it heads to the Budget Committee for a Friday markup.

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Firebrand Vought confirmed as White House budget director - Roll Call

Russ Vought will be White House budget director for the second time after a party-line confirmation vote in the Republican-controlled Senate.

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Spratt, longtime top Budget panel Democrat, dies at 82 - Roll Call

Democratic Ex-Rep. John M. Spratt Jr., the former House Budget Committee chairman, died Saturday at the age of 82.

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Proxy voting for new parents among changes pitched to House Rules panel - Roll Call

At a “member day” hearing, lawmakers floated a wide range of ideas to change how the House operates, with an eye toward the next Congress.

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City Council OKs spending another $34.5 million on burgeoning migrant crisis

Alderpersons OK’d a $33 million Homeland Security grant to care for asylum-seekers and also agreed to spend $1.5 million in tax increment financing dollars to buy a 10.7-acre property formerly used by the Marine Corps and convert it into a shelter for up to 550 migrants.

Chicago Sun-Times

Trump’s Hill backers often voted like DeSantis on entitlements - Roll Call

Trump’s has targeted DeSantis’ congressional votes that endorsed changes in seniors' benefits. Some Trump backers voted the same way, however.

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Markups? Floor votes? Senate appropriators say ‘yes we can’

WASHINGTON — New Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., knows that returning the chamber’s appropriations process to regular order “won’t be a walk in the park,” as she said during a news conference last week.

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