President Donald J. Trump’s immense, handsome bill has just recovered his first hurdle. Tuesday evening, the budget decision of the congress (H. Con. Res. 14) Establishment of the congress budget for the government of the United States for the financial year 2025 and the determination of the appropriate budgetary level for the financial years 2026 to 2034 passed a largely cross -party vote of 217 to 215.
Accordingly Punchbowl newsThe budget decision with $ 4.5 trillion for tax cuts and more than $ 1.5 trillion for spending cuts was satisfactory for President Trump. In the evening there were several holdouts, including Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-in) and Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH). For this reason, the vote was initially suspended. As soon as the spokesman for House, Mike Johnson and President Trump, they prompted them to convert their votes to yes, the vote was transferred again, whereby Rep.
In my more than 15 years over the congress, I have never seen how the leadership terminated a vote, send the legislator home and then changed the course abruptly and coordinated the vote. Everything within about 10 minutes.
– Jake Sherman (@jakesherman) February 26, 2025
Large, handsome budget resolutions adopted the US Senate
Mike Johnson is ready for this “big, beautiful” reconciliation calculation (audio)
On Friday, the Republican majority in the Senate passed their own budget solution in two parts, the antithesis of what the house has just approved.
The Senate passed its household solution early on Friday, which acts as a framework for the implementation Legislative agenda by President Trump. It would deliver $ 175 billion for border security and military means of $ 150 billion.
The adoption of the Senate is an early step in this process, which requires detailed work of committees to develop the details of the editions and offset in order to pay for the additional means.
The household decision contradicts the approach of the house, and both chambers ultimately have to be on the same side in order to obtain legislation through the finish line.
Despite the competing couple of legislative templates from the Senate controlled by Republicans, the way for the GOP seems to be the budget proposal, which President Donald Trump initially demanded. However, the Senate plan now serves effectively as a backup if the two chambers cannot come together with a reconciliation law.
Note from the publisher: This article has been updated for clarity after the publication.
