A mammoth bill advancing a broad range of President Donald Trump’s policy goals survived a key hurdle on Thursday, putting Republicans closer to their goal of passing a bill by sometime in May. The legislation passed the House Budget Committee on a party-line 21 to 16 vote and is expected to be taken up by the entire chamber for a floor vote later this month.

Republican politicians plan to take food and health care away from the poor to subsidize tax cuts for the rich. That might sound like a stale, Scroogy stereotype. But it’s not an exaggeration: It’s laid out, in black and white, in GOP budget plans released this week.