The Trump agenda just hit a frustrating — and totally avoidable — roadblock, and this time, the saboteurs aren’t Democrats. In a move that can only be described as political malpractice, five Republican members of the House Budget Committee voted to kill the most pro-American tax bill in a generation: The One, Big, Beautiful Bill.
Backed wholeheartedly by President Donald Trump and loaded with provisions that would boost working families, small businesses, and domestic job creators, the bill was designed to extend and expand the wildly successful 2017 Trump Tax Cuts. It included popular America First reforms like eliminating taxes on tips and overtime, permanently raising the standard deduction, expanding the child tax credit, and kicking illegal aliens off Medicaid to protect the program for actual U.S. citizens.
But apparently, that wasn’t good enough for five so-called “fiscal hawks” in the GOP. The final vote was 16-21 against advancing the bill out of committee, effectively sidelining it — and with it, Trump’s plan to stop the largest tax hike in American history from slamming into the American people in 2026.
The five Republicans who voted against the bill were:
- Rep. Andrew Clyde (GA)
- Rep. Chip Roy (TX)
- Rep. Josh Brecheen (OK)
- Rep. Ralph Norman (SC)
- Rep. Lloyd Smucker (PA)
Their main gripe? That the bill front-loads tax relief while delaying cuts to wasteful Medicaid spending and Biden’s green energy slush funds. You’d think they’d be more upset about the looming 65% tax hike on middle-class families if this bill doesn’t pass.
President Trump didn’t hold back, blasting the holdouts on Truth Social: “Republicans MUST UNITE behind, ‘THE ONE, BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL!’ … We don’t need GRANDSTANDERS in the Republican Party. STOP TALKING, AND GET IT DONE!”
And he’s right. Americans are staring down the barrel of a Democrat-driven tax explosion, and the only lifeline on the table just got torpedoed — by Republicans, no less.
This isn’t fiscal discipline. It’s sabotage. If these GOP members are serious about protecting taxpayers, they’d better stop playing budget purity games and remember who sent them to Washington. Because if the largest tax hike in history lands on Trump’s watch, we all know who the media will blame — and it won’t be Joe Biden.
Fix it. Pass the bill. Or face the voters.
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