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Home Republicans This week, Edward Hopper is sent when they are trying to hand over a large “beautiful bill” of President Trump.
Hopper is known for “nighthawks”, one of the most iconic pictures in American history. In the picture of 1942, four people were depicted in the middle of the night. The sorrowful street landscape commands in the foreground. Two men – a head decorated with feders – sit separately behind the counter, feed coffee. One of the men between its index and medium fingers is flavored with a cigarette. It is located next to a woman with scarlet hair and a red dress. She seems to be holding a donut or sandwich bite, studying it as if it were a rare artifact. She seems to discuss whether she should eat it. Young counterman – typed in white with a clear cap the envelope – leaning down in search of glassware or dishes hidden under it.
It’s a dead night. Each distant and separated. Even a couple-haired they sit next-look at each other.
Nighthawks, 1942, Oil on the canvas, 84.1 x 152.4 cm (33 1/8 x 60 inches), Chicago Art Institute. (VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)
The nighthawks all look as if they are just trying to do it through the night before dawn.
This week, they are experiencing what Republicans experience.
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The House’s budget committee convened at 10:26 pm on Sunday night to promote the tax reduction and reduction after Hiccup stopped the measure on Friday. At 22:39 ET, the Committee approved the bill 17-16-with four Republicans who voted “present”.
Jodi Arrington spokesman, Republican from Texas and chairman of the House of Representatives Committee, speaks during a meeting of the House of Representatives Committee in the US Capitol in Washington, Colombia District, Sunday, May 18, 2025. (Alex Voblsky/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The next stop is the Committee on the Rules of the House of Representatives, the final parliamentary station before giving the legislation to the floor.
At 12:31 am on Monday, the Rules Committee announced that he would prepare a bill on the floor – with a meeting at 1 am in the morning. This session can last all day on Wednesday. Literally. Last week, the Energy and Trade Board met 26 hours in a row to prepare their budget reconciliation measures. The Committee of Ways and Means huddled all night.
A group of republicans who sought state and local tax for high tax states (known as salt) planned a meeting with the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, a state-la la-la. And it is possible that the ward can be discussed or even voting to this measure at the end of Thursday, Friday morning or even Friday.
That’s how the Capitol hill is rolling if there is Large legislation On the clock. The hours are late. Meetings are long. Legislators convene different classes when they need – just get the measure through the finish line.
The only difference between Congress halls now and “Nighthawks” is that the coffee has sent the figures in the picture before dawn. It was in 1942. But it’s 2025.
There is a real parliamentary reason why the budget committee met so late on Sunday night after it stumbled on Friday afternoon. And there is a mad method at 1 am of the rules on Wednesday.
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The budget committee tried to mix different provisions with almost a dozen home commissions into one single legislative product on Friday. These efforts came up. In total, five budget committees voted for no. They were confused by costs, tax credits for green energy and working requirements for those in Medicaid.
Res. The Roy (R-TX) chip listens during a meeting with the House of Representatives Committee on May 16, 2025 in Washington, Colombia District. The members of the Committee on the budget met to consider the bill on reconciliation of the Republicans of the House of Representatives, which includes the proposed taxation of US President Donald Trump. The bill collided with a two -party opposition, and five national members of the House of Representatives Committee voted against it and supported the committee’s motion for the weekend. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Four of the five GOP noes were really against. Res. Lloid Smoke, Peng. The rules allow the participant in the winning part of the question (in this case, Nays), ask for another vote later. Smoke supported the plan. But then he switched his voice so he wouldn’t be on the victorious side. That expose a possible re -head.
“The voting call is moving forward. I think it’s a catalyst,” said the budget chairman Jodi Arrington, Texas. After a bad vote on Friday.
The budget committee then announced that he was calling at 10 pm on Sunday.
Here everything becomes interesting:
The main thing was that the budget committee finished its work by the north in Friday. After it has swept, the process consumes only 15 or 20 minutes. The budget committee approved a plan 17-16 with four Republicans who voted “present”.
“We are delighted with what we did,” said Ralph Norman, Rs.c., who was one of the Sudar, who voted on Friday.
Reverend representative Ralph Norman, Rs.c., arrives at the meeting of the House of Representatives at the Capitolian Capital Center for the Bill on Reconciliation of the budget on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
But Norman was still not excited to vote “yes” on Sunday night. He voted about the gift.
“There is much more what we need to do to include the government and enable costs and deficits,” Norman said on Monday Fox Business.
But regardless, this measure came out of the budget committee to the witches on Sunday. And then the announcement of the Committee on the Rules came – immediately after midnight on Monday – about the session at 1 o’clock in order to prepare a “big, beautiful bill” for the floor of the House of Representatives.
There are several reasons for the Republicans of the House of Representative Rules Committee decided to squeeze at 1 am on Wednesday. Let’s start with the parliamentary.
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The budget committee ended directly to the north Sunday. The rules allow the Democrats two full days to submit documents and perspectives after this meeting. So, they had all day on Monday and all day on Tuesday. The Rules Committee needs an hour to report its official meeting. Thus, the “official” announcement of the Committee on Wednesday will be released immediately after 12:01:01 on Wednesday. This causes a meeting on Wednesday at 1am.
Here are other, more practical reasons.
Republicans need all the time when they can get. There is a talk about trying to vote on the floor late a day on Wednesday. We’ll see about it. But the time of the meeting of the Early Rules Committee does it possible.
By the second, the Committee on the Rules may consume the entire calendar day Wednesday. The streams of legislators on both sides will submit to the Committee on the Rules to propose different amendments. This is a protracted process.
US Capitol in Washington, Colombia District, USA, Sunday, May 18, 2025. (Alex Voblsky/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
But in this way, the meeting at 1am ET may reduce attendance. After all, who wants to appear at 1am before the meeting and maybe discuss your amendment at 6:30 am? You get an idea.
And as soon as the bill comes out of the Committee on the Rules, expect that the Republicans are waiting for a late evening when they try to close the deal. Perhaps the house can vote almost at any time of the day on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday to adopt a bill. It can be late in the evening. Or even for the night. They will vote if the bill is ready, regardless of time on the clock.
This week, the Republicans, conducted “a great, beautiful bill” at home. They may have voices. Maybe they won’t. Perhaps they will be more reduced. Perhaps there will be a transaction on salt for state and local taxes. Maybe not. Perhaps voting comes at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. But most likely, if -late in the evening.
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Like nighthawks, everyone on the Capitol hill is just trying to do it through the night and at the dawn.
