共和党研究委员会主席表示，2月份需要出现”良好进展”
作者：伊丽莎白·埃尔金德（Elizabeth Elkind）
福克斯新闻
发布时间：2026年2月4日 美国东部时间上午10:00
福克斯首发：牵头推动另一项”庞大美好法案”的众议院共和党人表示，他们只有很短的时间窗口来通过一项旨在全面降低美国民众成本的大规模立法。
“我们需要在2月份看到良好进展，为我们在春末夏初实现这一目标铺平道路，”得克萨斯州共和党人、共和党研究委员会（RSC）主席奥古斯特·普夫卢格（August Pfluger）告诉福克斯新闻数字版。
唐纳德·特朗普总统去年带领共和党人通过了《一项庞大美好的法案》，这项全面立法兑现了特朗普竞选承诺的几个版本，包括降低小费和加班费的税收、延长他2017年的减税政策，并增加更多资金用于移民打击行动。
预算和解程序使这一壮举成为可能，因为它降低了参议院的通过门槛，使其与众议院自身的简单多数门槛一致，从而使控制国会权力杠杆的政党能够通过对美国法律的全面财政改革。
共和党公布计划：通过第二项”庞大美好法案”削减1万亿美元赤字
包括议长迈克·约翰逊（R-路易斯安那州）在内的大批共和党议员表示，他们希望今年再次使用这一程序。普夫卢格领导的RSC是众议院共和党团中最大的核心小组，上个月发布了一份框架文件，对一项将在住房、医疗保健和能源等领域降低成本的法案提出建议。
普夫卢格告诉福克斯新闻数字版，可负担性可能是另一项共和党法案的”主要驱动力”，但他仍在努力从众议院共和党会议的其他领域获取意见。
“我相信随着我们听取不同团体的反馈，计划会有所完善。但我们确实认为这是一个坚实的框架。我们相信基于良好政策，这是一个获胜的议题，”普夫卢格表示。
又一举措：参议院共和党人关注另一项和解法案
但他和得克萨斯州众议院预算委员会主席乔迪·阿伦廷（Jodey Arrington）都承认，他们需要快速行动——特别是考虑到11月的2026年中期选举即将到来。
“如果我们的核心小组和华盛顿的共和党人在11月之前的这10或11个月里不能团结起来，我会作为一名领导人和保守派感到尴尬，因为我们仍然有这个千载难逢的机会采取行动，”阿伦廷在RSC的”直指要点”播客即将播出的一集中表示，福克斯新闻数字版独家提前看到了这一集。
他在播客的其他地方表示，共和党人”可能有三个月的窗口期”采取有意义的行动，这与普夫卢格自己预测的行动应在春季前完成的观点一致。
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普夫卢格表示，在向各个众议院委员会发出关于实施哪些削减措施的指示后，他希望本月完成第一个关键步骤。
但共和党目前在众议院仅拥有一席多数优势，直到3月举行特别选举取代前议员玛乔丽·泰勒·格林（R-佐治亚州）。
4月，在新泽西州新州长米基·谢里尔（Mikie Sherrill）的职位空缺引发的特别选举后，这一优势可能会进一步缩小。直到8月初，加利福尼亚州举行特别选举填补已故共和党众议员道格·拉马尔法（Doug LaMalfa）留下的共和党倾向席位后，共和党人才会获得更多喘息空间。
他们的第一项和解法案显然以除两名共和党人外的所有共和党人支持而通过。
“我们有一条路。我们已经铺设了这条路，我们应该为我们能达成共识的事情去做，”阿伦廷辩称。
唐纳德·特朗普总统在签署其标志性减税和削减开支法案后，众议院议长迈克·约翰逊将木槌交给他
他表示，第二项法案”不必像第一项那样庞大和全面，它需要针对那些要么未完成、要么被搁置的事情，我们应该重新纳入考虑，比如不允许税收资金用于变性手术，不允许可替代的联邦资金支持那些使用州医疗补助资金资助非法移民的州。”
但目前尚不清楚这些政策是否能通过或获得温和派共和党人的支持，他们对预计对共和党人来说是爬坡的选举周期持谨慎态度。
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然而，普夫卢格告诉福克斯新闻数字版，他希望如果法案专注于可负担性措施，他们甚至可以获得一些民主党人的支持。
“我相信我们将制定出一项让民主党人很难投反对票的法案，”他说。”我希望我们能有一些能在某些情况下获得民主党支持的内容。”
伊丽莎白·埃尔金德是福克斯新闻数字版的政治记者，负责众议院的主要报道。此前的数字专栏见于《每日邮报》和哥伦比亚广播公司新闻。
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GOP must race for new ‘big, beautiful bill’ to slash costs before midterms, top House Republicans warn
The Republican Study Committee chairman said ‘good movement’ needs to happen in February
By Elizabeth Elkind
Fox News
Published February 4, 2026 10:00am EST
FIRST ON FOX:House Republicans who are spearheading the charge of another “big, beautiful bill” say they only have a short window of time to pass a massive piece of legislation aimed at lowering costs for Americans across the board.
“We need to see good movement within the month of February that puts us on a path to achieve this by late spring, early summer,” Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman August Pfluger, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital.
President Donald Trump led Republicans through passing the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act last year, sprawling legislation that made good on versions of several Trump campaign promises like reducing taxes on tipped and overtime wages, extending his 2017 tax cuts, and surging more money toward his immigration crackdown.
The budget reconciliation process makes such a feat possible by lowering the Senate’s threshold for passage to line up with the House’s own simple majority line, empowering the party holding the levers of power in Congress to pass sweeping fiscal changes to U.S. law.
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Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger speaks during a press conference in Washington, D.C., Oct. 28, 2025.(Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
A large contingent of Republican lawmakers, including Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., have said they want to use that process again sometime this year. Pfluger’s RSC, the largest caucus in the House GOP, released a framework last month with recommendations on a bill that would lower costs in areas like housing, healthcare and energy.
Pfluger told Fox News Digital that affordability would likely be a “major driver” of another such GOP bill, but said he was still working on getting input from other areas of the House Republican Conference.
“I’m sure that there will be refinement as we hear feedback from the different groups. But we do believe that it’s a solid framework. We believe that it’s a winning issue based on good policy,” Pfluger said.
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But both he and House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, have acknowledged they will need to work fast — particularly with the 2026 midterm elections coming in November.
“I would be embarrassed as a leader and as a conservative if our conference and Republicans in Washington won’t rally in these 10 or 11 months we have before November, where we still have this window of opportunity to strike,” Arrington said in a forthcoming episode of the RSC’s “Right to the Point” podcast, which Fox News Digital got an exclusive first look at.
Rep. Jodey Arrington speaks at a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on May 22, 2025, in Washington, D.C.(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
He said elsewhere in the podcast that Republicans “probably have a three-month window” to take meaningful action, lining up with Pfluger’s own prediction that action should happen by springtime.
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Pfluger said he hoped to get the first key step done this month after sending instructions on what kind of cuts to enact to various House committees.
But Republicans are currently dealing with a one-seat majority in the House until a special election to replace former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., takes place in March.
That could get reduced back down in April after a special election for a blue-leaning seat to replace New Jersey’s new Gov. Mikie Sherrill. Republicans won’t get more breathing room until early August, when California holds a special election for the GOP-leaning seat that was held by the late Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif.
Their first reconciliation bill notably passed with all but two House Republicans on board.
“We have a path. We’ve dug that path, and we should just do it for the things that we can all agree on,” Arrington argued.
President Donald Trump holds a gavel presented to him by House Speaker Mike Johnson after he signed his signature bill of tax breaks and spending cuts at the White House, July 4, 2025.(Evan Vucci/AP Photo)
He said a second bill “doesn’t have to be as big and comprehensive, it needs to be targeted on the things that were either left undone, things that fell out, that we should put back in… like not allowing tax dollars to go to transgender procedures and not allowing the fungible federal dollars to support states that use their state Medicaid dollars to fund illegals.”
But it’s not yet clear that such policies could make it in or gain the support of moderate Republicans who are wary of an election cycle that’s expected to be an uphill climb for the GOP.
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Pfluger, however, told Fox News Digital that he hoped they could even get some Democratic support if the bill stayed focused on affordability measures.
“I believe that we are going to produce something that is going to make it very difficult for Democrats to vote against,” he said. “I would hope that we would have something on the board that would get Democrat support in some cases.”
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
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