Washington-President Mike Johnson muscular a multi-million dollar budget plan through the Chamber by the narrowest margins, a crucial step for Republicans while embarking on the legislative agenda of President Donald Trump.
The vote was 217-215, with Republicans casting all the votes in favor of the budget resolution. Only a Republican, representative Thomas Massie, R-Ky., Joined all Democrats to vote against.
The vote occurred after a dramatic day of turning in the arms in the camera, with Johnson organizing multiple meetings in his office to win about the retreats of the Republican and Trump party personally calling many of those same people personally.
“We did it,” Johnson said after the vote. “This is the first important step to open the reconciliation process. We have a lot of hard work ahead of us. We are going to deliver the first agenda of America.”
Three conservative members who had publicly opposed the Budget Plan, Tim Burchett representatives of Tennessee, Victoria Spartz de Indiana and Warren Davidson de Ohio, finally turned and voted in favor.
“There is no quid pro quo, but the president assured me that he would work towards cuts and that he has never lied to me,” said Burchett, who had expressed concern about the level of expenses of expenses that the resolution would allow, after the vote. “He has always been honest about it.”
On Tuesday night, at a chaotic moment, republican leaders of the House of Representatives seemed to briefly cancel the vote of the budget and send the members home at night, only to abruptly call the vote and bring the legislators on return On the floor minutes later.
After the vote, the leader of the majority, Steve Scalise, Republican of the la-la., Described how Trump had played an instrumental role in the turned of some of the last minutes.
“Trump helped us with several members. Look, Trump has been an incredible ally throughout this process. Talking to anyone we ask that it really was necessary to clarify things, ”Scalise told journalists. “I’m not going to talk about who Trump spoke with and what they talked about. I wasn’t aware of those conversations. “
Scalise also explained what happened during a strange episode that even left the veteran observers of the house scratching his head.
After the republican party leaders spent almost an hour on the floor trying to dispute the votes, they decided evening. But as they left the Capitol, the legislators began to receive notifications by email, text messages and calls in which the vote returned.
“We weren’t ready yet, so we went to the third bill,” said Scalise, “and then he still had to make sure we were there before making the decision to return to all and then mention the budget.”
The successful vote puts the ball on the Senate court. Because Trump has supported the Chamber Budget Plan, the Senate will be under pressure to assume and approve that plan, despite the fact that the upper camera adopted its own version last week.
According to reconciliation, the process that Republicans are using to try to promulgate the political priorities of Trump online of the party line, both chambers must approve the same budget resolution before the committees can officially write the legislative package.
The fate of the camera resolution was uncertain for much of the day. In addition to the small band of conservatives who cited concerns about spending levels, the most moderate Republicans expressed concern about possible clippings to Medicaid. But after a full day of meetings with Johnson and after Trump himself began calling Holdouts, some of them began to soften their opposition.
“It was a great help, as always,” said a smiling Johnson on Trump when he left the camera floor.
The budget measure requires $ 4.5 billion in tax cuts and an objective of $ 2 billion in expense cuts. It includes more than $ 100 billion in new expenses in immigration application and the military. It also requires that the Energy and Commerce Committee of the House of Representatives find $ 880 billion in cuts to federal programs, and Republicans say that some of that will come from reducing spending in Medicaid.
The Democrats were unified as opposed to the budget plan of the Republican Party, criticizing it as a tax reduction for the rich that will damage the families of the working class by reducing Medicaid. They have merged that political message aimed at promoting a gap between Trump and the Swing voters, as well as their own voters who depend on federal benefits.
The morning of Tuesday, the Chamber advanced the budget resolution in a procedural vote of 217-211, which established the final vote on Tuesday night. Four Democrats and a Republican did not vote, giving Johnson a space to breathe more.
But three of the Democrats who had lost that vote, the representatives Frederica Wilson of Florida, Brittany Pettersen of Colorado and Kevin Mullin de California, presented themselves unexpectedly for the vote of the final budget, adding an extra wrinkle for Johnson and the Republicans.
The vote of the camera on Tuesday to adopt a budget plan is simply a complicated process that Republican legislators are undertaking to advance the Trump agenda. Both the camera and the Senate must adopt the same resolution before the committees can prepare a massive bill of the party line. The Senate voted for a different budget resolution that dealt with the border, defense and energy, while leaving taxes for a separate measure.
“It’s just a first step in the process,” said NBC News, president of the Representatives Chamber Committee, Jason Smith, R-MO. “We did something that people didn’t believe we could do. We pass a budget resolution. “
