House Republicans’ “big, beautiful” reconciliation bill has a Texas-sized problem as it heads to the Budget Committee for a Friday markup.

The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee is requesting records from Pfizer’s CEO and an interview with a former company executive to investigate an allegation that clinical testing related to the development of the company’s Covid-19 vaccine was purposefully delayed until after the 2020 presidential election.

The bill would boost the tax break to as much as $2,500 but end it for children of undocumented immigrants and married parents who file separate returns.

A pair of organizations representing federal law enforcement officers urged lawmakers to strengthen carveouts of an array of proposed cuts to federal workers’ retirement benefits but stopped short of calling for their withdrawal.

Senior Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee were caught off guard by Medicaid provisions in their own bill.

Sen. John Kennedy, a stalwart supporter of President Donald Trump, does not seem to be a huge fan of this whole “accept a $400 million flying palace from Qatar’s ruling family and upgrade it into a new Air Force One” plan.

GOP spending hawks lobbed shots at the package for failing to do enough to rein in rising federal deficits. And Republicans with concerns related to imperiled energy projects in their districts or the revised cap on state and local tax deductions registered their own complaints.

Texas Democrats have criticized Republican proposals to overhaul Medicaid, saying they would cause millions of Americans to lose benefits but GOP