JUST IN: ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Moves Forward In Unexpected Late-Night Move

Millions of Americans feared that GOP lawmakers had fumbled their opportunity to pass a comprehensive budget bill when the legislation supported by President Donald Trump failed to pass due to the “no” votes of a handful of House Republicans.

Days later, however, legislators reconvened for a surprise late-night session on Sunday and advanced what Trump has long referred to as the “Big Beautiful Bill.”

According to The Hill:

Republican deficit hawks allowed President Trump’s bill of legislative priorities to advance out of the House Budget Committee in an unusual late-night vote on Sunday, marking a key hurdle cleared for House GOP leaders and a sign of progress for warring Republican factions

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After gaveling in after 10 p.m. on Sunday, the committee voted 17-16 to advance the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which would extend Trump’s tax cuts and boost his border funding priorities while reforming Medicaid and food assistance programs.

The four Republican holdouts who had tanked the vote on Friday — Reps. Ralph Norman (S.C.), Chip Roy (Texas), Andrew Clyde (Ga.), and Josh Brecheen (Okla.) — voted present to allow the bill to go forward, with Roy revealing that there was progress on moving up the start date for new Medicaid work requirements and speeding up the phase-out of green energy incentives.

In a sign of the high-stakes nature of the vote, the Speaker as well as White House Legislative Affairs Director James Braid made appearances off a room to the side of the late night Budget Committee affair.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said they are counting the vote “as a big win tonight.”

News of the progress quickly spread via social media:

🚨 #BREAKING: President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, which includes NO TAX ON TIPS, has officially PASSED the House Budget Committee

This is a HUGE win for President Trump! 🇺🇸🔥
pic.twitter.com/vv3ZCzAXzK

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 19, 2025

🚨BREAKING: President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” passes the House Budget Committee.

21-16 vote.
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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 19, 2025

At 12:42 AM ET President Trump is still awake, posting his congratulations to House Republicans for advancing the One Big Beautiful Bill out of committee. The man is a machine. pic.twitter.com/r8whIh5vut

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) May 19, 2025

The congressional move came just hours after former GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy called out members of his own party for tanking the legislation in the first place.

According to the New York Post:

McCarthy accused the fiscal-hawk pols of prioritizing their own interests and warned that it was a “real misstep” as the rest of the party pushes to get Trump’s sweeping marquee agenda package through Congress.

“The stock market seems like it is moving up. Now, if Congress can start doing the things that President Trump’s doing, it would even help us more,” McCarthy told “Cats Roundtable” on WABC 770 AM.

“[It] was a real misstep on the Republicans’ part, in the budget side, that four of them looked out for themselves instead of moving the bill along, reconciliation.”