{"id":9503,"date":"2025-05-21T19:01:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T19:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thomas-massie-unloads-on-fellow-conservatives-as-megabill-negotiations-continue\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T19:01:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T19:01:58","slug":"thomas-massie-unloads-on-fellow-conservatives-as-megabill-negotiations-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thomas-massie-unloads-on-fellow-conservatives-as-megabill-negotiations-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Massie unloads on fellow conservatives as megabill negotiations continue"},"content":{"rendered":"
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House GOP leaders and the White House are pushing for a final passage vote today on a roughly 1,100-page bill that hasn\u2019t even been fully written \u2014 and one Republican lawmaker is taking notice in a very public way.<\/p>\n

Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, fresh from being called out by President Donald Trump the day before as a \u201cgrandstander\u201d<\/a> who doesn\u2019t \u201cunderstand government,\u201d is using his social media platform to call attention to the path down which Republicans are headed.<\/p>\n

\u201cMajor provisions of the big beautiful bill are still being negotiated and written, yet we are being told we will vote on it today,\u201d Massie said in one X post<\/a> on Wednesday. \u201cShouldn\u2019t we take more than a few hours to read a bill this big and this consequential?\u201d<\/p>\n

In a follow-up, Massie noted, \u201cit\u2019s in our rules that we will have 72 [hours] to read every bill. Yet it\u2019s been circumvented this week by a \u2018manager\u2019s amendment\u2019 which substantially changes the bill but should only contain technical clarifications.\u201d<\/p>\n

That manager\u2019s amendment would reflect the major policy changes leaders are currently discussing with conservative hard-liners. It would replace the base text of the GOP megabill that is currently being debated in the House Rules Committee, which needs to take a vote to pave the way for floor consideration of the party-line domestic policy package.<\/p>\n

Leadership wanted to pass that bill before the end of the day. But the Rules panel has been meeting since 1 a.m. on Wednesday and shows no sign of concluding anytime soon. Speaker Mike Johnson and members of the House Freedom Caucus are also heading to the White House<\/a> to meet with Trump on the megabill later this afternoon to try to break the impasse over the scale of spending cuts on the table.<\/p>\n

In another X post<\/a>, Massie applied his own captions to a popular meme \u2014 a photo of one man noticing a woman walking down the street, while another woman looks on horrified. In Massie\u2019s version, the woman being admired is labeled \u201cone big beautiful bill,\u201d the man is tagged as \u201cMAGA\u201d and the other woman has the description, \u201cno more omnibus bills.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Republican domestic policy package is not technically an omnibus, which refers to a piece of legislation that bundles together multiple appropriations bills. But fiscal hawks, including Massie, have raged over the megabill\u2019s price tag, complaining that it doesn\u2019t do enough to cut spending.<\/p>\n

Katherine Tully-McManus and Benjamin Guggenheim contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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