Despite a hiccup in the Budget Committee, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and House Republicans deserve praise for quickly moving President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” through the committee process. It now seems on track for passage before Memorial Day.

But as much progress as the House has made toward making individual tax rates from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 permanent, spending reductions in the bill have been pushed far into the future, some of them until after Trump leaves office, while all new tax loopholes are opened immediately. It’s easy to give concessions and hard to make people do what’s right, but that is the job voters sent their representatives to Congress to do, and in this, they are failing.