Republicans are heading towards budget blueprints, Donald Trump's vast tax cuts and immigration agenda, a major step towards unanimous opposition from Democrats, and social safety to advance Trump's 2025 agenda It integrated deep concerns about reducing online programs.
The vote for the passage was 217-215, with the only Republican vote opposed by prominent fiscal hawk Thomas Massey, and no Democrats support the controversial action. A Democrat did not vote.
That's after a rare series of manipulations by Mike Johnson's chairman, he cancelled the bill's votes — because it lacks votes for the passage — and the family members won't have more votes for the night. He was advised to do so. He then quickly reversed the course, but only increased his budget to pass.
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 Congressional Committee on finding about $20 in spending cuts over the next decade.
However, some lawmakers warned that the budget could include an estimated $800 million in potential cuts from Medicaid, a federal program that provides health insurance coverage to more than 72 million Americans. Masu. The resolution does not explicitly target Medicaid, but skeptical lawmakers warn that there are few options to achieve the $880 billion cut allocated to the Energy and Commerce Commission .
Johnson and House Republican Steve Scullyse said Trump himself had contacted passive members about the need to move forward with a $450 million tax cut plan. .
“With a vote like this, you'll always have people talking all the way through to the end of the vote,” Scullyse said before the roll call. “It's that tight.”
First up is Tim Burchett, Victoria Spartz and Warren Davidson – the three Hardings who were initially seen as votes that were not voting for the measure.
If Democrats oppose it, the majority of House Speaker Mike Johnson's slim Republicans cannot afford multiple asylums. Some moderate Republicans in vulnerable districts have expressed concern that they have members who rely heavily on Medicaid.
Eight House Republicans, including California representative David Valadao and New York representative Nicole Mariotakis; I warned you in a letter “Reducing Medicaid will have serious consequences, especially in rural areas and mostly Hispanic communities.”
Don Bacon, a Republican of Nebraska, who represents the district that supported Kamala Harris as a democratic presidential candidate in November, said: He demanded leadership to prove it The proposal is “not excessively reducing Medicaid.”
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 efforts to dismantle the boiling federal government at city halls and council offices around the country. .
At the early Capitol Hill Rally on Tuesday, Sen. Chris Murphy announced that the Republican budget bill “from the poor and middle class to billionaires and businesses in the history of the country and the largest transfer and billionaires and businesses.” I'll attack,” he attacked.
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He continued. “You're talking about Medicaid's $880 billion cut… That means sick children will die in this country. That means hospitals in depressed communities and rural communities will close their doors, right? ? That means drug and addiction treatment centres will disappear throughout this country.”
The vote comes after the Senate passed its own budget bill last week. This is less controversial that Trump doesn't support as much as the House ones. Senate Republican Plan B requires $340 billion measures to cover Trump's border, defense and energy priorities, but leave the troubling tax policy issues later this year.
The House budget calls for $2TN of spending cuts over a decade to pay Trump's agenda. The tax cuts Trump is sought will extend the breaks he passed during his main term, his main legislative achievement, which is due to expire at the end of this year.
Some hardline conservatives have said deeper spending cuts and strong control over the government's separate funding laws to avoid potential closures after current funding expired on March 14th. I asked for this.
“We do 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.”
Reuters contributed to this report
