House Republicans advanced a budget resolution Tuesday evening 217 to 215, clearing the first step to enacting President Donald Trump’s first-year legislative agenda.
GOP leadership’s narrow passage of the budget framework is a sigh of relief to Speaker Mike Johnson, who initially pulled the resolution from the floor, leading to speculation that Republicans did not have the votes to pass the budget blueprint. House GOP leadership successfully flipped Republican Reps. Victoria Spartz of Indiana, Warren Davidson of Ohio and Tim Burchett of Tennessee, who previously said they would vote against the resolution. (RELATED: GOP Refutes Dem Fearmongering About Budget Bill With One Simple Fact)
Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie was the lone GOP lawmaker to oppose the bill.
House Republicans held the previous floor vote open for more than an hour in an attempt to flip several GOP…
