The House of Representatives passed the Republican spending bill in a 217-215 vote on Tuesday evening.
Rep. Massie was the only Republican to vote “no” on Trump’s “big beautiful bill” which boasts $2 trillion in cuts.
The budget package sets the stage for tax cuts, immigration reform, domestic energy expansion and Pentagon funding.
Speaker Johnson was confident ahead of Tuesday night’s vote – ‘There’s no Plan B’ Johnson said.
Speaker Pro Tem Michael Simpson presided over the House on Tuesday evening as lawmakers voted on the budget package.
The AP reported:
With a push from President Donald Trump, House Republicans sent a GOP budget blueprint to passage Tuesday, a step toward delivering his “big, beautiful bill” with $4.5 trillion in tax breaks and $2 trillion in spending cuts despite a wall of opposition from Democrats and discomfort among Republicans.
House Speaker Mike Johnson had almost no votes to spare in his bare-bones GOP majority and was fighting on all fronts — against Democrats, uneasy rank-and-file Republicans and skeptical GOP senators — to advance the party’s signature legislative package. Trump was making calls to wayward GOP lawmakers and had invited Republicans to the White House.
The vote was 217-215, with all Democrats opposed, and the outcome was in jeopardy until the gavel.
Following the budget proposal vote, Speaker Johnson declared victory in remarks to reporters.
“We got it done…Now passing the budget resolution in the House, it will go to the Senate. This is the first important step…we have a lot of hard work ahead of us…Lot of work yet to be done, but we’re going to celebrate tonight. We’ll roll up our sleeves and get right back at it in the morning,” Johnson told reporters Tuesday evening.
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