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MORNING GLORY: Will the House Freedom Caucus desert President Trump and trigger a massive tax hike?
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt defends President Donald Trump's spending bill despite Elon Musk's harsh criticism, highlighting GOP divisions over wasteful spending and national debt.
House Speaker Mike Johnson hopes to have brought President Donald Trump’s "One Big Beautiful Bill" to a vote on Wednesday afternoon or evening.
If he was successful and "OBBB" passed and is on its way to the president’s desk, then this column has been overtaken by events —great events as passage of the OBBB means lift off of the American economy.
If, however, four or more Republicans bolted the Caucus, turned on the president and their party, and stopped the huge breakthrough for the economy, the border, the energy sector and especially the nation’s defense and voted "no," then break glass and pull the lever.
OBBB isn’t the sort of bill that can survive a conference and a second run through the legislative course. Too many narrow choke-points were navigated to reach this decision point. Throwing caution to the wind and this delicately balanced high pile of compromises to a "conference committee" is actually to throw away a unique opportunity for the GOP to deliver on the central promises the party and President Trump made in the campaign of 2024.
It’s not a perfect bill in my eyes or the eyes of any other observer and most members of Congress. It’s a very good bill, however, and the good must not be the enemy of the perfect.
The most vocal critics of the OBBB are self-described "deficit hawks" (plus the odd ball Congressman Massie from Kentucky who believes his job is to be interviewed on television.)
It isn’t possible to cut more from the bill’s impact on the deficit without starting over, and "starting over" means failing to deliver.
Again, the margins of the House and Senate GOP majorities are too narrow to expect a different result. Shooting down the "OBBB" now means shooting it down period. The members who vote "no" will be responsible for the biggest tax hike in history and the continued decline in American military readiness as well as the underfunded Border Patrol and unfinished wall.
The Republicans voting "no" may be from "safe districts," but it’s pretty clear that the GOP writ large and President Trump specifically will be recruiting and funding primary challengers for them and if those aren’t successful,........
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