megabill

House Freedom Caucus threatens to tank the Megabill. It’s all about (lack of) spending cuts. Rand Paul slams $2 trillion deficit

Speaker Mike Johnson is also privately telling GOP fiscal hawks that he’s pushing Senate Majority Leader John Thune to add back in hundreds of billions of dollars in spending cuts the Senate dropped, according to two people with direct knowledge of the conversations. But fiscal hawks have been skeptical the Senate will comply. https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/29/congress/house-gop-leaders-watch-senate-anxiously-as-they-work-to-secure-votes-00432288 Republican …

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Megabill text released overnight — Voting begins today.

Senate Republicans released updated text for their sweeping domestic policy bill late Friday, as leadership prepares to start voting as soon as Saturday. Republican leaders viewed releasing the text as a key step for trying to nudge several senators, who have not yet said if they will back the bill, to come off the fence. Republicans don’t …

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