'First time we were hearing of them': The GOP megabill is packed with surprises for some Republicans

[OKIsItJustMe]

Source: Politico

‘First time we were hearing of them’: The GOP megabill is packed with surprises for some Republicans
Senior Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee were caught off guard by Medicaid provisions in their own bill.

By BEN LEONARD and MEREDITH LEE HILL
05/14/2025 05:15 PM EDT

The House Energy and Commerce Committee was 16 hours into a nearly 27-hour markup when it became clear that top Republicans on the panel weren’t clear on what key Medicaid provisions in the legislation they were actively debating would actually do.

Couple that with confusion from moderates over the committee’s complex and controversial proposal — including language to dramatically overhaul the popular health safety-net program with new work requirements and cost-sharing mandates — and it spells possible troubles ahead for the domestic policy megabill central to enacting President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda.

It could also further complicate last-minute negotiations on final text before the House is set to vote on the full package next week, especially with hard-liners pushing for even deeper cuts.

“There were some items in there that, it was the first time we were hearing of them,” GOP Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, who represents a competitive district in Pennsylvania he just flipped red, said in an interview.

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[Karasu]

1. Republicans have been so obsessed with poison pilling for so fucking long that they're even doing it to their own

fascist shit.

Fucking lunatics. Unrelated riders and provisions need to be banned from all legislation in this country, all the time. Not just for bills under "reconciliation."

[OKIsItJustMe]

2. Can you imagine a bill containing 12 separate constitutional amendments!?

(Only 10 made it through the legislative process.)
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights

[Karasu]

3. I'm talking about say, being allowed to add a provision to ban all AI regulation for 10 fucking years into a budget

reconciliation bill. Something that is blatantly unrelated. The irony is that when they try to force a bill through reconciliation (as they are going to try to do with this abomination in order to avoid a Dem filibuster), that is the one time legislative riders/provisions actually need to be related to the bill in order to be attached. It's ridiculous.

Not that the GOP would ever write something as crazy as that AI provision.

Oh, right. They just did.

[DENVERPOPS]

4. That is because Republican Politicians

are lazy,.....The 2025 crowd and Federalists, as well as groups funded by Republican Oligarchs and Republican Corporations, write the bills and give them to the Politcians to present.........

[OMGWTF]

5. Rehtuglicans want to increase the debt ceiling by FOUR TRILLION DOLLARS!!!

Because those poor bazillionaires need their tax cutz.

[Karasu]

7. Whereas when Dems are in charge, raising the debt ceiling is like pulling teeth for them, to the point that they

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would sooner have the government default on the debt than actually do it.

Hypocritical pieces of shit.

[pfitz59]

6. ALEC and other slimy groups write the bills.

Congress just passes them.

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8. How do you know when Repugs are lying? Their lips are moving.