The House of Representatives advanced President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” largely along party lines early Thursday morning.
Members voted 215-214-1 with Republican Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Warren Davidson of Ohio being the lone GOP lawmakers to vote “no” on the tax and spending package including vast portions of the president’s legislative agenda. Speaker Mike Johnson called the budget reconciliation bill a “historic moment” on the House floor and called on the Senate to take up the bill and pass it quickly. (RELATED: Tom Emmer Taunts ‘Completely Lost’ House Democrats — ‘We Don’t Need Their Votes’)
No House Democrats voted for the president’s landmark bill. House Freedom Caucus chair Andy Harris, a leading fiscal hawk, voted “present.”
“After four long years of President Biden’s failures, President Trump’s America first agenda is finally here, and we are advancing that today,” Johnson said on the House floor shortly after 6 a.m. Thursday. “What we’re going to do here this morning is truly historic, and it will make all the difference in the daily lives of hard working Americans. The Dallas waitress pulling overtime, the Detroit mom counting bills late at night, the Kentucky coal miner waiting on his second chance. These are the forgotten men and women of our country that we are all called here to serve and the one big, beautiful bill will deliver for those people. It revives our economy. It will deliver historic tax relief. It will make the largest investment in our border security in a generation.”
Republican Study Committee chairman August Pfluger of Texas called the ‘big, beautiful’ bill’s passage “the most consequential conservative victory of our lifetime” in a statement following the vote.
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