Republicans were united behind the budget blueprint on Tuesday evening, barely snatching Donald Trump’s vast tax cuts and immigration agenda to steal votes over unanimous democratic opposition and widespread concerns It was scraped off.
The House approved the plan with a 217-215 vote, with prominent fiscal hawk Thomas Massey as the only Republican representative vote to oppose. Democrats did not support the measure. They threw it as a betrayal of middle- and low-income voters on betrayal of middle-income and low-income voters, such as Trump’s chief aide Elon Musk.
Passing the “big, beautiful bill” pushed by Trump was a big victory for speaker Mike Johnson. It followed a rare series of operations where Johnson canceled a vote on the bill — when it appears that there were no votes to pass the measure — and members of the House were advised that there would be no further votes for the night. . He then quickly reversed the course, but raised the budget for the vote.
The 2025 fiscal year proposal includes approximately $450 million in tax cuts along with increased spending for defense and border security. To offset these costs, the plan places the legislative committee on finding about $20 in spending cuts over the next decade.
But Democrats warn that the budget will almost certainly bring about a massive cut of an estimated $800 million from Medicaid, a federal program that provides healthcare coverage to more than 72 million Americans. The resolution doesn’t explicitly target Medicaid, and Trump vows that the program “can’t touch,” but even some Republican lawmakers will achieve the $88 billion cut allocated to the Energy Commission He admitted there were few alternatives to this.
“Children are devastated. Family, devastation. People with disabilities, devastation. Elderly Americans, devastation. Hospitals, devastation. Democrat minority leader Hakeem Jeffries said that after Tuesday’s vote, he said: Jeffries previewed the Democratic strategy to compete for backpower in next year’s midterm elections, saying, “All of these extreme Maga Republicans will betray the people they represent.” I will confirm that I will be held responsible.”
Johnson and House Majority Leader Steve Scullyse said Trump himself had contacted passive members about the need to proceed with a 4.5 tonne tax cut plan. Energy deregulation and military spending.
“With a vote like this, you’ll always have people talking all the way through to the end of the vote,” Scullyse told reporters before the roll call. “It’s that tight.”
Three Republican hardlines – Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Victoria Spartz of Indiana and Warren Davidson of Ohio – initially protested that the cuts were not progressing well and opposed the opponents. I signaled. They all ultimately sparked a vote for the measure. In X, Spartz praised Trump’s “personal commitment” to improving Americans “physical and financial health” by persuading him to support budget resolutions.
When Democrats opposed, Johnson’s slim Republican majority could not bring about multiple asylums. Some moderate Republicans in the vulnerable districts raised concerns, particularly those with a constituency that relies heavily on Medicaid.
“Medicaid cuts are severe, especially in rural and primarily Hispanic communities,” eight House Republicans, including California representative David Valadao and New York representative Nicole Mariotakis, wrote to Johnson last week. It will bring about such consequences.”
In a statement after the vote, Baradao qualified his support. I made it clear that leadership will only support the final bill that protects important resources such as Medicaid and Central Valley family snaps. ”
Don Bacon, a Nebraska Republican who represents the district that supported Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in November, called for leadership to prove his proposal to “not overcut Medicaid.”
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Opposition to House Budget resolutions has been steadily building over the past few weeks. During last week’s break, the constitutive outrage over the reductions that Republicans proposed Medicaid and other social safety net programs, as well as Elon Musk’s to tear down the boiling federal government at city halls and council offices around the country. effort.
At the early Capitol Hill Rally on Tuesday, Sen. Chris Murphy announced the Republican budget bill to “the biggest transfers from the poor and middle class to billionaires and businesses in the country’s history and billionaires and businesses.” I’ll attack,” he attacked.
The vote comes last week after the Senate passed a competing budget bill, covering Trump’s border, defense and energy priorities, but the $340 billion measure left behind with tax policy thorn issues later this year It is accompanied by:
The House budget calls for $2TN of spending cuts for 10 years on payments on Trump’s agenda, including an extension of his signature tax cut, and is expected to expire at the end of the year during his first term.
Republicans in the House and Senate must adjust for the difference between the two blueprints. Republicans will use a special budget process known as settlement. This allows parties controlling both chambers of Congress to pass drastic policy bills with simple majority votes, avoiding the Senate Filibuster’s 60-vote threshold.
“We have a lot of hard work before us, but we’re going to provide America’s first agenda,” Johnson told reporters after the vote. “We’re going to celebrate tonight. We’ll roll up our sleeves and go back in the morning.”
