What’s in Trump’s big bill? Money for migrant clampdown but tax breaks and program cuts hit ‘bumps’

By LISA MASCARO Associated Press Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON AP Congress is deep into drafting President Donald Trump s big bill of tax breaks spending cuts and beefed-up funding to halt foreigners but it s bumpy one Republican chairman says with much work ahead to meet House Speaker Mike Johnson s goal of passing the package out of his chamber by Memorial Day In fact the tax cuts portion is still a work in progress As are the reductions in Medicaid food stamps and other mainstay authorities programs Mostly the Republicans who have the majority in Congress have made progress on parts that would increase spending adding chosen billion to the Pentagon and Homeland Prevention including money for the U S-Mexico edge wall Related Articles Trump critics launch new group to highlight rising costs Republicans including JD Vance s half brother challenge Cincinnati s Democratic mayor Canadian Prime Minister Carney will meet with President Trump hoping to ease exchange war tensions Moore Let s attract the best and brightest to U S Gov Healey five other governors invite Canadian premiers to Boston to talk Trump tariffs There are a few bumps in the road Rep Jason Smith of Missouri the Republican chairman of the powerful Techniques and Means tax-writing committee acknowledged on Fox News Sunday All informed several committees in the House are compiling their bills and about half have finished up They are being approved at the committee level by Republicans on party-line votes with Democrats opposed But chosen of the most-watched committees Approaches and Means Vitality and Commerce and Agriculture have yet to act Johnson himself acknowledged on Monday that his Memorial Day deadline may slip but vowed our timetable is on pace Once all the committees are done the different pieces of ordinance will be rolled together at the Budget Committee into what Trump calls one big beautiful bill If the House can pass the package it next would go to the Senate which is drafting its own version for a final product by July Democrats say they will fight what House party leader Hakeem Jeffries calls the extreme Republican agenda Here s a look at what s in and out so far Funding for million migrant deportations new officers and the confines wall Two of the committees handling immigration- and frontier security-related matters have wrapped up their rule Central to the Homeland Prevention Committee s bill is billion to revive construction of Trump s wall along the U S -Mexico territory line with particular miles of primary wall miles of river limitations and more It would provide billion to hire an additional new Edge Patrol agents as well as new customs officers and billion for signing and retention bonuses All described the Homeland Measure Committee approved billion in new spending At the same time the Judiciary Committee which handles interior immigration enforcement and legal proceedings has also completed its billion bill It would impose a fee on immigrants seeking asylum something the nation has never done putting it on par with meager others including Australia and Iran And there are more new fees proposed on various other legal paths to entry including a fee for those sponsoring unaccompanied children to enter the U S a penalty if sponsors of unaccompanied children skip court appearances and a fee for individuals paroled into the U S Overall the plan is to remove million immigrants annually and house people in detention centers It calls for more Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and investigators More money for the Pentagon and Trump s Golden Dome The House Armed Services Committee was tasked with drafting regulation with billion in new spending But they did that and more passing a bill with billion for the Defense Department and national protection Among the highlights it would provide billion for Trump s Golden Dome for America a long-envisioned missile defense shield billion to restock the nation s ammunition arsenal billion to expand the naval fleet with more shipbuilding and certain billion for frontier precaution It also includes billion for servicemember quality of life-related issues including housing vitality care and special pay Overhaul of the scholar loan repayment plans A wholesale revamping of the learner loan initiative is the key to the Guidance and Workforce Committee s decree with billion in budget cuts and savings The proposal would replace all existing scholar loan repayment plans with just two a standard option with monthly payments spread out over to years depending on the amount borrowed and a repayment assistance plan with monthly payments based on a borrower s income The new income-based plan is generally less generous than those it would replace Minimum payments for the lowest-income borrowers would be higher and forgiveness would be provided after years of payments instead of or The new repayment plans would take hold in July Among other changes the bill would repeal Biden-era regulations that made it easier for borrowers to get loans canceled if their colleges defrauded them or closed suddenly Federal employee pension cuts The House Committee on Oversight and Executive Adjustment targeted federal workers pensions for a projected billion in deficit savings over years Bulk of the savings would come from requiring federal workers hired before to pay more into the retirement system They would have to match the salary rate paid by federal workers hired since The committee also called for basing a retiree s annuity payment on their average top five earning years instead of the top three And the committee s plan would eliminate a temporary supplemental payment for newly retired federal workers who retire before they are eligible for Social Measure Republicans argued that federal employee retirement benefits outpace those in the private sector But critics including Rep Michael Turner R-Ohio who voted against the committee s package explained changing a worker s pension during the middle of employment is wrong Democrats noted the change would outcome in less take-home pay for a great number of middle-class Americans in the federal workforce More drilling mining on society lands The House Natural Materials Committee is set to meet Tuesday to consider its bill which largely matches Trump s executive orders to open populace lands and waters to more natural reserve progress It would allow increased leasing of populace lands for drilling mining and logging while clearing the path for more expansion by speeding up ruling body approvals Royalty rates paid by companies to extract oil gas and coal would be cut reversing former President Joe Biden s attempts to curb fossil fuels to help address weather change Oil and gas royalty rates would drop from on constituents lands and offshore to a uniform Royalties for coal would drop from to The measure calls for four oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge over the next decade It also seeks to boost the ailing coal industry with a mandate to make available for leasing square miles of community lands an area greater in size than Connecticut Republican supporters say the lost revenue would be offset by increased progress It s uncertain if companies would have an appetite for leases given the industry s precipitous decline in latest years as utilities switched to cleaner burning fuels and renewable power Associated Press writers Kevin Freking and Collin Binkley in Washington and Matthew Brown in Billings Montana contributed to this review