'Morally and fiscally bankrupt': House Republican scorches Trump's bill ahead of vote
by https://www.facebook.com/17108852506 · AlterNetU.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) reacts following the passage of a spending legislation to avert a government shutdown, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 20, 2024. REUTERS/Nathan Howard
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) reacts following the passage of a spending legislation to avert a government shutdown, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 20, 2024. REUTERS/Nathan Howard
Carl Gibson
July 02, 2025 | 09:53PM ETBank
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) blasted the Senate's version of H.R. 1, and included an infographic detailing the differences between the version the House passed by a 215-214 vote (which Self supported) and the version the GOP-controlled Senate narrowly passed with a tie-breaking vote from Vice President JD Vance. Self's post suggests that he would not support the Senate bill as-is, meaning that a bill with new amendments would then have to go back to the Senate before it can 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 railed against 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 assailing the Senate version of the BBB for its sky-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 wouldn't support the Senate legislation, including several of Trump's biggest supporters in Congress like Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) and Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) among the opposition. 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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