The One Big Beautiful Bill isn't quite dead. But it is resting.
Five hardline conservative Republicans joined the Democrats on the House Budget Committee to sink President Donald Trump's massive domestic policy and tax cut legislation.
The main culprits were the House Freedom Caucus, the group of rambunctious hellraisers who have long been a thorn in the side of Republican leadership since its formation in 2015. Specifically, Representatives Ralph Norman of South Carolina, Andrew Clyde of Georgia and Chip Roy of Texas led the charge.
Roy and Norman, the two most senior Freedom Caucus members on the committee, complained that the bill did not go far enough because it did little to reduce the deficit and it only enacts Medicaid work requirements in 2029, when Trump would leave office.
On Thursday, Roy told The Independent that delaying them for four years was "absurd."
Roy, Norman and Clyde have a history of defying Republican leadership. They also have a history of folding just as quickly when it counts.
In April, when it came time for the House to vote for the Senate's version of the budget resolution to begin writing the legislative text, Roy and Norman spent most of their week stamping their feet about how it did not go far enough on spending cuts before they came around and voted for the budget resolution.
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