Posted on 04/10/2025 11:03:08 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
In a close victory, House GOP members barely passed a budget resolution which will allow them to begin unlocking President Donald Trump’s agenda package.
In a 216-214 vote on Thursday, the measure passed. The vote was made tighter as two Republicans, Representatives Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.), voted against it.
However, Conservatives still face an uphill battle to get the 47th president’s marquee agenda to become a reality due to major differences on spending.
“We want to make sure we’re delivering on our shared goals in the budget resolution process,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told reporters Thursday morning ahead of the vote. “Our two chambers are directly aligned also on a very important principle: And that is the principle of fiscal responsibility.”
“We’re going to protect the essential programs for everybody that’s eligible to receive those.”
Both the House and Senate needed to adopt the budget resolution to unlock the reconciliation process, which will allow Republicans to be able to pass a potential Democrat filibuster that would need 60 votes to overcome.
Currently, Republicans hold 53 Senate seats and reconciliation will be critical to get Trump’s promised agenda of tax cuts, defense and border security spending, and stepped up energy exploration through Congress.
This comes after Senate Republicans had adopted the compromise budget resolution last week that included two sets of instructions.
The first, modeled after a version that cleared the House in February that called for at least $1.5 trillion in cuts and a second with a relatively $4 billion worth of cuts.
After repeated skepticism, GOP leaders were able to turn hardliners minds, assuring them that they would get the deeper spending cuts they want, despite fears that the outcome would cut Medicaid.
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Some small differences between Senate and House Bills.
“Conservative pushback”? BS.
2 loser GOP members.
Those wanting “steeper cuts” vote in the increases every time.
No...the House passed the same bill.
Should have had much deeper cuts than $1.5T over 10 years.
There are small differences in the reserved amounts that will require target results to differ slightly from the Bill description.
A+
The number of ignorant people who don’t know that or refuse to believe it is staggering.
Thanks for the reminder, Dick!
I would bet they want steeper cuts locked in based on DOGE findings.
the outcome would cut Medicaid.
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‘cut’ means cutting the rate of annual increase
Sacajaweau wrote:
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No...the House passed the same bill.
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Does it have the “no tax on tips, overtime, and social security in it?
Then they shouldn’t had voted for them in the past.
Now the real fight gets started. Reconciliation by passes the filibuster in the Senate. Now GOP can do whatever it wants, if it can agree on something other than political suicide, within the confines of the reconciliation process. Just remember Trump is a big spender.
The bill that was passed was identical to the Senate Bill and is the framework. They will fulfill all those issues as we move along. It is not a one step process...It’s an A-Z process.
Navy, NO!, THANK YOU for caring. So many don’t!
DB
Vaduz...THANK YOU! If we share enough of that 411 we may have a shot at saving this place!
Agree
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