A budget framework advancing President Trump’s agenda squeaked through the House on Thursday by the narrowest of margins, passing in a 216-214 vote. House Speaker Mike Johnson.
A budget framework advancing President Trump’s agenda squeaked through the House on Thursday by the narrowest of margins, passing in a 216-214 vote. House Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republican leaders earlier expressed confidence that the measure would pass on Thursday—a day after GOP holdouts forced Johnson to delay a vote. The hard-line conservative lawmakers, who complained that the bill delivers tax cuts not paid for by spending cuts, huddled with Johnson for more than an hour before the vote was called off Wednesday night, the New York Times reports. „I believe we have the votes“, he said Thursday morning in his first joint press conference with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, per the .
