The House of Representatives is poised to vote soon on H.R. 1 — President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," or BBB — and one Republican member is indicating that he aims to defeat it.
In a post to his official X account Rep. Keith Self (R-Texas) criticized the Senate's version of H.R. 1, including an infographic outlining the differences between the version the House passed by a 215-214 vote (which Self supported) and the version narrowly passed by the GOP-controlled Senate with a tie-breaking vote from Vice President JD Vance. Self's post indicates he would not support the Senate bill in its current form, meaning that a bill incorporating new amendments would need to return to the Senate before it could reach Trump's desk.
"The Senate’s version of the BBB is morally and fiscally bankrupt," Self tweeted. "We must get back closer to the House-passed version."
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The infographic Self included with his post suggested the House's version of the bill was more draconian, arguing that it "defunds Planned Parenthood for 10 years," "terminates 'green new scam' subsidies" and "creates a national school choice voucher program." And according to Self's infographic, the Senate bill "pauses federal funding for Planned Parenthood for only one year," "waters down Medicaid reforms" and "leaves blue state students in failing schools with 'optional' school choice."
But according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the Senate's version actually cuts Medicaid by a higher amount than the House bill, with more than $1 trillion in funding cuts over the next decade. The CBO also estimated that nearly 12 million Americans would lose their health insurance as a direct result of the Senate bill's Medicaid cuts.
Self has also criticized the BBB's soaring new levels of spending (mostly on extending tax cuts that primarily benefit the richest Americans ), calling the legislation " fiscally criminal " for adding more than $1 trillion to the deficit. This has been a repeated refrain by the far-right House Freedom Caucus (of which Self is a member), which recently circulated a memo attacking the Senate version of the BBB for its extremely high deficit spending.
Trump posted to Truth Social on Wednesday evening that he expects the House to pass the legislation overnight, asserting that the House Republican Conference was "united." On Tuesday, Approximately 20 House Republicans Indicated they would not support the Senate legislation, including several of Trump's strongest supporters in Congress such as Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) and Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) among those opposing it. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) can only afford to lose three Republicans if he hopes to pass a bill along party lines.
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