The 'Big Beautiful Budget Bill' Fails, Rep. Roy Votes 'No'

In a 16 to 21 vote, the 'Big Beautiful Budget Bill' has failed in the House Budget Committee. Rep. Chip Roy (R) is one of 5 Republicans who voted 'no' on the bill.

Aside from Rep. Roy, Oklahoma Rep. Josh Brecheen (R), Georgia Rep. Andrew Clyde (R), South Carolina Rep. Ralph Norman (R), and Pennsylvania Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R) also voted against the bill.

The Texas Republican took to social media to elaborate on his vote, writing, "we were making progress, but the vote was called, and the problems were not resolved, so I voted no. I am staying in Washington this weekend to deliver." "Medicaid Work requirements must start NOW not 2029 & the Green New Scam must be fully repealed, as President Trump called for," he added.

In a press release sharing his comments on the state of reconciliation, Rep. Roy further expressed that the markup "falls profoundly short."

"It does not do what we say it does with respect to deficits," he warned, adding that "the fact of the matter is, on the spending, what we’re dealing with here is tax cuts and spending a massive front-loaded deficit increase. That’s the truth." "Deficits will go up in the first half of the 10-year budget window. And we all know it’s true, and we shouldn’t do that. We shouldn’t say that we’re doing something we’re not doing."

Rep. Jodey Arrington (R), the chairman of the House Budget Committee, is reported to have called the committee into recess after the vote, urging the committee to "go home." It was subsequently announced that the committee would reconvene on Sunday at 10:00 P.M.

On Truth Social, President Donald Trump (R) shared his frustrating at the vote, urging GOP members to "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 wrote.

Rep. Roy has signaled that he's looking forward to the meeting Sunday evening to "deliver."

In his comments, he argued that "this bill has back-loaded savings and front-loaded spending, nowhere near the Senate Budget top line, by the way." "The Senate Budget top line of six and a half trillion dollars, which, by the way, is what we were pre-COVID, inflation-adjusted, on interest, on Medicare and Social Security," he added.

"And if we would reform Medicaid, we could actually get to the core of the problem, but we refuse to do it. And I’m not going to sit here and say that everything is hunky-dory when this is the Budget Committee."