BURSTFive House Republicans voted against advancing President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” on Friday, which contains his legislative agenda.
House Republican fiscal hawks sunk a key vote on the president’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, with the final tally being 16-21.
The five House Republican members who voted no on Friday were: Chip Roy (Texas), Ralph Norman (S.C.), Josh Brecheen (Okla.), Andrew Clyde (Ga.) and Lloyd Smucker (Pa.).
House GOP lawmakers could only lose two votes from their members and still push the legislation ahead. Smucker switched his vote from yes to no on Friday as a procedural move.
“To be clear—I fully support the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB). My vote today in the Budget Committee is a procedural requirement to preserve the committee’s opportunity to reconsider the motion to advance OBBB,” Smucker said in a Friday post on social media platform X.
Following the vote, House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) called the committee into recess. The committee will reconvene Sunday at 10 p.m., three sources told The Hill.
The legislation contains the extension of the president’s 2017 tax cuts, coupled with cuts to food and entitlement programs that House GOP lawmakers estimate will save north of $1.5 billion over the next 10 years. The bill repeals green energy tax credits and Medicaid reforms, including heightened work requirements on “able-bodied” adults, which will lead to millions of people losing health coverage.
More moderate House GOP are pushing for an increase in the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap. In return, fiscal hawks want to alter the legislation to find savings somewhere else.
“This bill falls profoundly short. It does not do what we say it does with respect to deficits,” Roy said Friday during the markup.