House buckles for marathon tax, Medicaid hearings

May 13, 2025, 9:45 AM UTC

House Gears for Marathon Markups as Conservative Angst Mounts

House lawmakers are buckling for marathon sessions when three key committees open their debates on the bulk of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending reconciliation package.

The House Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, and Agriculture committees will mark up their respective portions of Trump’s “big beautiful bill” today as House Republicans race to pass the final product out of their chamber by the end of next week.

GOP tax-writers unveiled the remainder of their part of the reconciliation package yesterday, extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts along with making good ...

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