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The House Budget Committee approved a fiscal 2027 budget resolution Thursday as the first step toward passing a filibuster-proof reconciliation bill to provide tens of billions of dollars for defense, farm aid and voting restrictions.<\/p>\n

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The panel advanced the GOP-backed budget resolution on a strictly party-line vote of 20-14 after rejecting 14 amendments, all offered by Democrats.<\/p>\n

But in one sign of potential trouble as the resolution heads to the House floor, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, a Budget member who also serves on the powerful Rules Committee, did not vote at Thursday\u2019s markup. Roy and other conservative critics have expressed concerns that the resolution requires no offsetting spending cuts to keep the deficit in check, and that voter ID restrictions sought by President Donald Trump would have to get watered down to comply with the rules of the reconciliation process.<\/p>\n

The concurrent resolution includes instructions to four House committees \u2014Armed Services, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Agriculture and House Administration \u2014 directing them to draft legislation providing up to $73 billion in defense and intelligence funds to underwrite the war in Iran, $12 billion in aid to farmers, and $10 billion for legislation aimed at preventing voting fraud.<\/p>\n

If adopted by the House next week \u2013 and if also adopted by the Senate \u2014 the budget resolution would allow for a reconciliation bill that spends up to $95 billion over 10 years, not including interest costs, without any offsetting cuts.<\/p>\n

In an impassioned plea for support as the markup began, House Budget Chairman Jodey C. Arrington, R-Texas, said the reconciliation bill is needed because Democrats will not provide the support needed to pass a supplemental funding request sought by Trump that includes $67 billion to pay for the Iran war.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should be able to work collectively to stand with our troops,\u201d Arrington said. \u201cIt will not happen \u2026 and if we don\u2019t use reconciliation to just give baseline readiness, not Star Wars and Golden Dome and transformative modernizing of the military, just the bombs, bullets and battlefield readiness for our men and women in uniform, to finish the fight successfully and return home safely, that\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arrington added that the reconciliation bill would \u201cstrengthen our food supply\u201d by providing aid to farmers and \u201cgive confidence to the American people that there is in fact free, fair and accurate elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

The instruction to the House Administration Committee is intended to produce a measure similar to legislation pushed by Trump and Republicans, the so-called SAVE America Act, that would require proof of citizenship and identification to vote but that has been unable to get the support from Senate Democrats needed to become law.<\/p>\n

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., applauded the adoption of the resolution and its inclusion of defense and voting-related instructions. \u201cThis is the next step toward advancing the SAVE America Act \u2014 our party\u2019s top legislative priority,\u201d he said on X, formerly Twitter. \u201cDemocrats have chosen not to engage on these important issues. Ultimately, they\u2019ll have to answer to the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democratic resistance<\/h2>\n

Pennsylvania Rep.\u00a0Brendan F. Boyle, the panel\u2019s ranking Democrat, responded to Arrington\u2019s speech by telling the committee he used to read fairy tales to his daughter and \u201cI would try to come up with the most imaginative, wildest, most creative fairy tale I could come up with.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cMr. Chairman, I give you credit,\u201d Boyle told Arrington. \u201cThe fairy tale you just told was so imaginative I could never come up with something as wild.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boyle slammed Trump and Republicans for not delivering on a promise to lower costs during the 2024 presidential campaign, which he blamed on Trump\u2019s tariffs and a \u201creckless, idiotic, preemptive war on Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 14 amendments offered by Democrats variously sought to repeal elements of the past two reconciliation laws enacted by Republicans, including reductions in the growth of Medicaid spending, cuts to federal funding of student loans and cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps.\u00a0The amendments proposed paying for the spending increases with higher taxes on \u201cthe wealthy and corporations.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the amendments sought to repeal Trump\u2019s tariffs, and another to rescind funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection that was provided in the past two reconciliation packages.<\/p>\n

Trouble ahead<\/h2>\n

Meanwhile, Senate Republicans continued to express skepticism about the effort Thursday, most prominently Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thune said reconciliation is a \u201crisky proposition\u201d because GOP defense hawks want more spending than the budget resolution allows and fiscal hawks want to see the new spending offset with cuts to other programs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a very uneven path,\u201d Thune told reporters Thursday. \u201cI can\u2019t make any guarantees over here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., one of the spending hawks, said in a post on X Thursday that \u201cOur national debt is a runaway train. The next reconciliation bill should be fully paid for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thune said the inclusion of the Agriculture Committee in the instructions will open Republicans up to difficult amendment votes as well. \u201cIt\u2019s an option, and if forced to do it, we will see what the traffic will bear here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Others appeared even more doubtful.\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t think a reconciliation bill will pass the Senate,\u201d said Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan.<\/p>\n

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Aidan Quigley, Aris Folley\u00a0and Savannah Behrmann contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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