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 ruling body programs Mostly the Republicans who have the majority in Congress have made progress on parts that would increase spending adding selected billion to the Pentagon and Homeland Assurance including money for the U S-Mexico perimeter 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 pact 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 specific bumps in the road Rep Jason Smith of Missouri the Republican chairman of the powerful Procedures and Means tax-writing committee acknowledged on Fox News Sunday All stated 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 specific of the most-watched committees Solutions and Means Vigor 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 bill 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 demarcation wall Two of the committees handling immigration- and dividing line security-related matters have wrapped up their measure Central to the Homeland Prevention Committee s bill is billion to revive construction of Trump s wall along the U S -Mexico dividing line with a few miles of primary wall miles of river fences and more It would provide billion to hire an additional new Perimeter Patrol agents as well as new customs officers and billion for signing and retention bonuses All informed the Homeland Safety 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 asylum seekers seeking asylum something the nation has never done putting it on par with minimal 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 safety 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 specific billion for territory line prevention It also includes billion for servicemember quality of life-related issues including housing vitality care and special pay Overhaul of the novice loan repayment plans A wholesale revamping of the candidate loan scheme is the key to the Schooling and Workforce Committee s measure with billion in budget cuts and savings The proposal would replace all existing candidate 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 Governing body Improvement targeted federal workers pensions for a projected billion in deficit savings over years Largest part 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 Shield 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 reported changing a worker s pension during the middle of employment is wrong Democrats revealed the change would aftermath in less take-home pay for countless middle-class Americans in the federal workforce More drilling mining on community lands The House Natural Guidance Committee is set to meet Tuesday to consider its bill which largely matches Trump s executive orders to open population lands and waters to more natural store growth It would allow increased leasing of community lands for drilling mining and logging while clearing the path for more advance by speeding up regime 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 surroundings change Oil and gas royalty rates would drop from on masses 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 citizens lands an area greater in size than Connecticut Republican supporters say the lost revenue would be offset by increased rise It s uncertain if companies would have an appetite for leases given the industry s precipitous decline in up-to-date years as utilities switched to cleaner burning fuels and renewable ability Associated Press writers Kevin Freking and Collin Binkley in Washington and Matthew Brown in Billings Montana contributed to this overview