WASHINGTON — GOP House leaders said Tuesday they are confident the “big, beautiful bill" President Donald Trump wants to enact his policies will be passed by Memorial Day.

Seven of the 11 House committees that need to review the bill have already completed their work, and another — the Natural Resources Committee — is expected to take up its portion of the bill this week.

What You Need To Know

  • GOP House leaders said Tuesday they are confident the “big, beautiful bill" President Donald Trump wants to enact his policies will be passed by Memorial Day

  • Seven of the 11 House committees that need to review the bill have already completed their work, and another — the Natural Resources Committee — is expected to take up its portion of the bill this week

  • The bill includes an extension of the tax cuts President Donald Trump enacted during his first term, incentives for businesses to invest in the U.S., an expansion of locations used for energy production, and increased defense and border security spending. 

  • A major sticking point is the $880 billion in cuts the Energy and Commerce Committee needs to find, which is not possible without cutting Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program, according to the Congressional Budget Office

“We’re very encouraged and even excited this morning about where we are,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said at the Capitol on Tuesday.

In a final step before sending the bill to the House Budget Committee, next week the House Agriculture, Energy and Commerce Committee and Ways and Means Committee will take up the legislation, which includes an extension of the tax cuts Trump enacted during his first term, incentives for businesses to invest in the U.S., an expansion of locations used for energy production, and increased defense and border security spending. 

A major sticking point is the $880 billion in cuts the Energy and Commerce Committee needs to find, which is not possible without cutting Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Johnson said the budget bill would strengthen Medicaid by eliminating fraud, waste and abuse, including the removal of undocumented immigrants. 

“We need to improve and shore up and strengthen the program so that it can be there for the people who desperately need and deserve it,” he said.

Johnson and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., have been working closely with the White House, meeting with Trump last Thursday before the president released his 2026 budget proposal. The speaker said the House delayed taking up the budget bill in the final three committees until next week because they are waiting to receive calculations on some of the tax provisions. 

Johnson acknowledged that some House members “are not going to be elated by every provision of the bill,” but he said coming to consensus is “about balancing preferences.”

“We didn’t want to move this quickly, with speed for the sake of speed," he said. "We want to get it right. In its totality, this is going to be the most important, most consequential legislation that we’ll ever be involved in in our lifetimes.”