Trump blasts 'grandstanders,' demands House GOP pass his mega bill

President Trump pressed House Republicans to “stop talking” and coalesce behind the colossal bill that carries hallmarks of his agenda. 

House Republicans have spent the week fine-tuning the final three chunks of their filibuster-proof budget reconciliation bill, but intraparty fighting has threatened to derail the bill just before it reaches the finish line in the lower chamber. 

“Republicans MUST UNITE behind, ’THE ONE, BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL!’ Not only does it cut Taxes for ALL Americans, but it will kick millions of Illegal Aliens off of Medicaid to PROTECT it for those who are the ones in real need,” the president posted Friday on social media.

He added, “The Country will suffer greatly without this Legislation, with their Taxes going up 65%. It will be blamed on the Democrats, but that doesn’t help our Voters. We don’t need ‘GRANDSTANDERS’ in the Republican Party. STOP TALKING, AND GET IT DONE! It is time to fix the MESS that Biden and the Democrats gave us. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

Mr. Trump’s call for unity comes as Republicans on the House Budget Committee met to stitch the individual pieces of legislation from 11 House panels into the president’s “one big, beautiful bill.” 

However, hardline members of the House Freedom Caucus — Reps. Chip Roy of Texas, Ralph Norman of South Carolina and Andrew Clyde of Georgia — have said they won’t support the measure in committee. 

Without their support, the bill has no chance of passing through committee and throws a major wrench into House Speaker Mike Johnson’s self-imposed deadline of passing the entire package from the House by Memorial Day. 

Broadly, their main grievances against the bill are delays in deep spending cuts, which they contend front-load spending in the measure and add to the federal deficit. Also, they want the work requirements for Medicaid and the phasing out of clean energy tax credits enacted faster than the current plan, which delays both until 2029. 

Mr. Roy and Mr. Norman walked out of the committee markup Friday morning, demanding that the panel go into recess while negotiations on the side continued. 

Mr. Norman said “we’ll see” when asked if he would support the legislation. 

“All of us are very disappointed at the progress, or lack of, that was made,” he told reporters. “I’m done with smoke and mirrors. We’ve got a math problem, pure and simple.”