Vote on monstrous Republican bill to happen later this morning
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Debate is proceeding now:
After gaveling in at 1 a.m., the markup stretched on for more than 21 hours. Democrats offered hundreds of amendments for floor debate, which were all shot down. Many of those proposals targeted the bill’s restrictions on Medicaid and SNAP food aid, or would have blocked the wealthiest taxpayers from benefiting from tax cuts in the package.
The panel also adopted a package of tweaks to the legislation, including language triggering work requirements for Medicaid recipients at the end of 2026, rather than the start of 2029, the deadline House Republicans initially wrote into the bill.
In a win for blue-state Republicans, the amendment increases the limit in the bill on how much taxpayers can deduct in state and local taxes to about $40,000, after Trump demanded this week that those SALT-cap holdouts “leave it alone.” The measure already included language to boost the cap to $30,000, from the $10,000 in current law.
The phase-out of tax perks for clean energy projects have also been accelerated under the tweaks the committee approved.
The fact that the primary ask of vulnerable blue state Republicans was moar upper-class tax cuts is about as good a summary as you can get of the nature of the party.