Results of lawmakers’ all-nighters on ‘big, beautiful bill’

I’d love to be able to give you details of the legislation approved Wednesday as three House committees advanced their parts of the bill.

But with a gigantic bill like this — intended to make spending cuts to offset the costs of making President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent — it’s routine that important details only emerge after Congress has passed the bill and the president has signed it.

There’s also this dynamic:

“The House Energy and Commerce Committee was 16 hours into a nearly 27-hour markup [session to change and approve the bill] when it became clear that top Republicans on the panel weren’t clear on what key Medicaid provisions in the legislation they were actively debating would actually do,” Politico says.

The best summary of what’s in the bill that I can find continues to be this one from The Associated Press, published before the three committees finished their work.

The legislative package combining all the House committees’ work is to be put together by the House Budget Committee on Friday.

Here are some details on Energy and Commerce’s health care piece of the bill, from Politico.

Here is a rundown on the House Agriculture Committee’s approval of $300 billion in nutrition spending cuts, also from Politico.