(21 May 2025)
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++BEGINS AND ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington – 21 May 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Andy Harris, (R) Maryland:
“We are greatly encouraged by the progress that’s been made in the last 24 hours. Obviously, the president came here yesterday and he laid out a few things. He said, you know, don’t go any further on SALT. He said oh, by the way, eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicaid. That’s fine. That’s what the American people expect. And then he said, by they way, we have to eliminate the Green New Scam. So, in the last 24 hours, well, there was a little SALT deal made. I don’t think it went in the right direction. But the White House offered a proposal late last night that I think fulfills the other two parts of what the president talked about and there’s broad agreement in the House Freedom Caucus that that’s included in the package I think this package is on is on route to get passed. I don’t think it can be done today, I mean the runway is short today. The leadership’s got figure out you know where to go from here, but I think progress is made, I think that there is a pathway forward that we can see. But again, the leadership will have to figure out, you know, what the timeframe of this is.”
++WHITE FLASH++
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Chip Roy, (R) Texas:
“One of the reasons I ran for Congress was to deal with our very badly broken healthcare system. Today there are millions of Americans right now who can’t get healthcare because of our broken system. They’re on wait lists. The vulnerable Americans are on wait lists because we’ve got a broken system that rewards the able-bodied over the vulnerable. That gives more money to people on Medicaid than on Medicare. We are trying to fix those things and match those so we have a system that works.”
++WHITE FLASH++
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Scott Perry, (R) Pennsylvania:
“We accepted the White House’s offer last night. Unfortunately, it’s not yet codified in this agreement. We need to continue to work at that. We as members are at the table. We don’t want the deal to be ended. This is an arbitrary deadline. If today comes and goes, it doesn’t mean that this possibility to make sure that taxes stay low and that we fix America’s healthcare system and fix America’s energy system, it doesn’t mean that prospect is off the table. It just means it might not happen today. And it’s important that everybody knows that because there’s some kind of belief in Washington D.C. that once today comes and goes, that this cannot be fixed. This is a completely arbitrary deadline set by people here to force people into a corner to make bad decisions. It’s more important to get this right, to get it correct, than to get it fast. And we are sitting at the table to do that.”
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
House Republicans are getting closer to passing President Donald Trump’s tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security.
Republicans look to make permanent the individual income and estate tax cuts passed in Trump’s first term, in 2017, plus enact promises he made in the 2024 campaign to not tax tips, overtime and interest on some auto loans.
On Wednesday, members of the House Freedom Caucus appeared more optimistic about the bill.
“The White House offered a proposal late last night that I think fulfills the other two parts of what the president talked about and there’s broad agreement House Freedom Caucus that that’s included in the package I think this package is on is on route to get passed,” House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Andy Harris, (R) Maryland said.
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