The House of Representatives narrowly passed a massive 10-year budget framework, known as the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act, on Thursday in a triumph for the agenda of President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress.
“If you’re for a secure border, safer communities, and a strong military—this bill is for you,” Speaker of the House Mike Johnson R-La., said before the vote. “If you’re for fairer and lower taxes, bigger paychecks, affordable gas and groceries, and restoring dignity to hard work, this is the bill for you.”
Once signed into law by Trump, the nearly 1,000-page 10-year budget bill will extend his soon-to-expire 2017 first-term tax cuts while restructuring benefits programs and funding border security.
The bill, which required a simple majority in the House, was passed by a margin of 218-214 with Republican Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., a fiscal hawk, and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., a centrist, joining all Democrats in voting against it.
Trump urged unity ahead of the vote, writing on the social media platform Truth Social on Tuesday, “‘THE ONE, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL’ sets the United States down a fiscal path by greatly reducing our Federal Deficit, and setting us on course for enormous Prosperity in the new and wonderful Golden Age of America.”
He added, “To my GOP friends in the House: Stay UNITED, have fun, and Vote ‘YAY.’ GOD BLESS YOU ALL!”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., decided to bring the bill to the floor for a final vote without amendments shortly after its passage in the Senate in spite of serious criticisms from fiscal hawks in the House who argued that it must be amended in order to address Senate changes they saw as backsliding from conservative priorities.
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