The Congress is sending a budget resolution to the resolved desk, a great victory for President Donald Trump and his legislative impulse.
The Chamber approved a budget resolution previously amended by the Senate on Thursday morning, a feat in the air until a handful of holders voted yes at the end of a call vote.
The resolution approved 216 to 214. Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky) and Victoria Spartz (R-IN) were the only dissidents of the Republican Party.
“Congritions to the Chamber on the approval of a bill that prepares the scenario for one of the largest and most important signings in the history of our country,” published a jubilant Trump in Truth Social. “Among many other things, they will be the greatest tax cuts and regulation ever contemplated. Make the United States great again!”
The problem had sneak up under the radar when the tariffs dominated the headlines during the week. But the budget resolution is unequivocally necessary for Trump to move his legislative agenda in Capitol Hill through budgetary reconciliation, the same process through which he approved his 2017 tax cuts and that President Joe Biden used to approve.
Allhoug that the reconciliation comes with some procedural headaches (mainly in the Senate) and other limitations, allows Republicans to advance in the Senate with a simple majority, without going through the requirement of 60 votes for most of the legislation.
The speaker Mike Johnson (R-La) shot football after the vote.
“I told you not to doubt us” Hey saying After the vote, take that Trump did not have to “call a single member.”
Despite the Bravuconería de Johnson, Trump and his team bowed to the Republicans to approve the bill. Trump himself organized two boxes more or less in the White House at the beginning of the week (a meeting should remember, he attended).
A large part of the budget hawks, including the usual skeptical conservative blocks, as well as the most conventional figures at the conference, were skeptical that the Senate would deliver the expenses of expenses. The Senate modified the instructions of the Chamber Budget previously approved of a mandatory of $ 1.5 billion in expenses of expenses to a (relatively) miserable $ 4 billion.
The senators insisted that this was necessary to guarantee parliamentary compliance and maintain the privileged state of the bill that requests to move the bill under reconciliation.
Anyway, the long history of the Senate Republicans to pursue expenses without restrictions gave a justifiable cause of skepticism of the House of Representatives.
The leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune (R-SD) and Johnson, celebrated a joint press letter on Thursday less than an hour before the vote. Thune gave guarantees of the Republicans of the Senate who were “serious” about the search for expenses of expenses and were “aligned” with the camera.
The Senate leader promised that his Republicans “would do everything possible to be as aggressive as possible,” but they did not commit to any additional commitment.
After more discussions among the households of the house, with the leaders of the house that facilitate conversations, Thune’s public comments demonstrated sufficient.
Republicans will use reconciliation to advance in most of Trump’s legislative agenda on the border and immigration, energy and, perhaps the most important thing, the reduction of expenses and taxes.
“This vote is more than a budgetary victory; it is a declaration of purpose and strength, which affirms Trump’s admission to provide growth and opportunity,” the Treasury Secretary, Scott Besent, tweet After the vote. “I am very encouraged by the incredible Republican unit under the leadership of President Donald J. Trump and the historical speed so the Chamber is acting to support US employment and creators.”
Despite justified optimism, the way ahead will be difficult. Each committee has the task of nailing concrete provisions, or what tax cuts will be more irritating. And they must find the savings through expenses of expenses to pay Trump Tax cuts 2017, without taxes on tips and other new policies, and, idealic, to make those or so many tax cuts permanent.
That is a monumental task, which will occupy the majority of the attenation of the Congress for the planned future: in 2017, the Republicans could not approve the reduction of taxes and the YS law until December.
But with the budget resolution outside the road, attention can resort to reconciliation. And that is a giant and victory for Trump’s agenda.
Bradley Jaye is an attached political editor of Breitbart News. Follow it on X/Twitter and Instagram @bradleyeye.
