Posted on 02/25/2025 5:51:20 PM PST by RandFan
House Republicans adopted the budget resolution that will lay the foundation for enacting President Trump’s legislative agenda Tuesday night, just minutes after they initially pulled the measure from the floor.
The legislation— which provides a framework for Republican priorities on tax, border, and energy in “one big beautiful bill” — was approved in a 217-215 vote. It now heads to the Senate.
It capped a wild evening in the House chamber that saw Republican leaders hold open an unrelated vote for more than an hour to buy time to win over holdouts, announce they were canceling a vote on the legislation, and reverse course just 10 minutes later.
The tally also marked a dramatic turnaround for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House GOP leaders, who hours earlier were facing opposition to the measure from four deficit hawks, skepticism among some other hardliners, and apprehension from moderates concerned about potential slashes to social safety net measures.
Leading into the vote, Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.), Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) and Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) were expected to be the final holdouts against the measure, while Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) dubbed himself a “lean no.” They were largely concerned with the level of spending cuts in the legislation, speaking out against the impact it would have on the deficit.
Spartz, Burchett and Davidson flipped to yes. Massie remained a “no” vote.
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Nice!
GREAT!!!
It’s good to see the GOP showing some unity and discipline for a change.
Does this include funding for USAID?
Excellent!
Now the Senate will adjust it, and not in a direction that solidifies those votes.
Which republicans voted no?
Wait, you’ll know the answer to this better than me.
Didn’t Rand say the budget wasn’t really cutting anything or something like that?
Or was that the senate?
Good grieff, 56 and still not sure how the budget works :)
I thought it went from the house to the senate...but the house drew it up.
Don’t know, but it passed because some Dems are sick and not present.
The Senate version is not as good as far as we’re concerned they now need to come to agreement
Gotcha.
Thanks.
I didn’t know there was a senate version lol.
I thought they got the house bill and played around with that :)
Only Massive voted no
Massie not Massive; stupid autocorrect
Not yet.
First step only.
They can’t adjust it, they can accept the premise then go into reconciliation.
They Senate does not get t rewrite the proposal, they can recommend changes and go to reconciliation.
217 to 215 is the continuing problem in this country. No one would mess with it in any way if the vote had been 417 to 15. When was the last time we saw votes like that?
And yet it’s been said that this budget will lay the groundwork to add 20 trillion to the debt in 10 years time.
Mitch McConnell must have had a son he disowned.
His name was Thomas Massie.
Each a loner and a loser.
Kentucky owns them.
Time to disown them both.
In 2 years from now it’ll be hard to imagine not having at least 3 separate Impeachments of Trump by the end of 2027 if the Dems gain 3 or more seats in the House. I’ve never seen such a firmly staunch group of hateful people in my life than the 2015-2025 Democrats about Donald Trump. The 2026 Midterms are crucial.
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