


Speaker Johnson is holding a test vote open in the House for them to proceed on debating the Senate version of the Big Beautiful Bill.
Right now the vote is 214-212, with six Republican votes outstanding:
Chip Roy is one of the six….
CHIP ROY just now in the Capitol said he’s still examining many parts of the bill and trying to understand whether he can vote for it.
He said he needs to understand the Medicaid provisions. He needs to understand the “flows of tariff dollars”
On IRA credits: “If the subsidies will flow, we’re not gonna be able to get there. If the subsidies are not gonna flow, then there might be a path.”
ROY said the Senate “failed” to enact the $2T in spending cuts needed for $4.5T in tax cuts.
“But now we got to figure out, okay, what are the options right at each stage of this?”
Andy Harris is another:
There are others, but apparently no one is leaving until they get this passed.