14-05-2025
Lawmakers race the clock to finish work on President Trump's ‘big, beautiful bill'
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – Several congressional committees are fighting the clock as Republican leadership tries to include all of President Donald Trump's priorities, but some issues could spell disaster for the legislative package.
Democrats pushed back all throughout the night as Republicans try to hammer through hundreds of pages of legislative text to make reconciliation a reality.
'We are long past due for identifying and extracting the waste, fraud and abuse that has plagued society,' said Rep. Jim Rose (R-Tenn.).
House Energy and Commerce spent much of the night discussing Medicaid, as North Carolina Republican Richard Hudson is concerned about undocumented immigrants getting Medicaid benefits over American citizens, but New York Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says Republicans are trying to cut even more people off from Medicaid.
'So why are they cutting 13.7 million Americans off their health care?' Ocasio-Cortez asked.
House lawmakers still have a long way to go as more items need to be considered, and some items have already been shot down by moderate Republicans.
Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
