The House passed the GOP budget plan for Trump's agenda Tuesday night after briefly pulling it from the schedule.

Summary

House Republicans narrowly passed their budget resolution by a vote of 217-215, a big win for Speaker Mike Johnson with an extremely slim GOP majority.

The measure begins the process to implement Trump’s legislative agenda through reconciliation, requiring only a simple majority to pass, but both the House and Senate must adopt the exact same resolution.

Democrats, fearing massive Medicaid cuts, strongly opposed the resolution and scrambled to get members to the floor, including Rep. Brittany Petterson, on maternity leave, and Rep. Kevin Mullin, who used a walker.

The resolution now heads to the Senate.

  • @Boddhisatva
    102•3 days ago

    House Democratic leaders complained in a message to Democrats that Johnson was trying to “jam” the budget resolution through after assuring them there would be no further votes in the House for the night.

    So the fuckers claimed there would be no more votes, waited for some Dems to leave, and then quickly scheduled another vote to try and get it through before the democratic reps could get back? I wish I could say I was surprised but there is no depth to which they can sink that can surprise me now.

    • @[email protected]
      11•3 days ago

      It’s unclear to me how that happens. Don’t they officially adjourn? Why are people going home when there’s a government takeover and the day has not officially ended?

      • @Maggoty
        5•3 days ago

        Iirc they can call a vote whenever they want until the session is officially put on break. The counter balance is requiring a quorem to vote.

        • @[email protected]
          1•2 days ago

          Honestly, I did some looking, and I can’t find anything that lays it out clearly enough for me to be 100%, but I’m pretty sure congress has to officially still be in a legislative day for a vote to happen.