The House voted Thursday to pass President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” after weeks of Republican infighting that repeatedly threatened to tank the GOP-only legislation.
Why it matters: It’s a major step toward getting the hulking fiscal package signed into law, though the Senate is likely to make substantial changes that could be difficult for House GOP hardliners to swallow.
- The vote was 215-214.
- The bill would extend the 2017 Trump tax cuts and aims to cut $1.5 trillion in federal spending, including through Medicaid work requirements and the repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act tax credits.
- It took considerable wrangling by House Republican leadership to get to this point, with members of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus threatening to oppose it as recently as Wednesday.
State of play: The vote came after a marathon congressional session in which some lawmakers stayed up for days.
- The House Rules Committee met early Wednesday morning to markup the bill only ending late Wednesday night.
- House Democrats gummed up the works with several procedural votes, pushing the vote time back to around 6:30 am ET on Thursday.