by Emmitt Barry, Worthy News Correspondent
(Worthy News) – On Tuesday, under intense pressure and after a brief withdrawal from the floor, the House passed a GOP budget resolution, a crucial victory for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). This budget plan, praised by President Donald Trump as “one big, beautiful bill,” includes $4.5 trillion in tax breaks and $2 trillion in spending cuts—elements of Trump’s domestic agenda omitted in the Senate’s version. The passage represents a significant step towards realizing the President’s vision.
House lawmakers narrowly passed a budget resolution with a 217-215 vote, focusing on national and border security, proposing $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, a $4 trillion debt limit increase, and targeting a $2 trillion reduction in mandatory federal spending over time.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced to reporters, “We got it done,” emphasizing the challenges ahead: “There is a lot of hard work ahead of us, but we are going to deliver the ‘America First’ agenda. We are going to deliver all of it — not just parts of it.”
It now moves to the Senate, where intense negotiations are set to start, especially since the upper chamber has already approved the first part of its two-bill reconciliation strategy.
Last week, the Senate approved a $340 billion budget resolution primarily targeting border security, defense, and energy, with plans to address other matters like tax relief later on.
The budget reconciliation process enables expedited legislative action on fiscal matters, requiring only a simple majority—51 votes—in the Senate to pass, thus avoiding the filibuster’s three-fifths majority rule. With a current 53-47 GOP majority in the Senate, once both chambers adopt a resolution, they can proceed to draft the bill.
Earlier on Tuesday, Trump expressed a preference for the House’s “one big, beautiful bill,” remaining open to both legislative proposals, yet he endorsed this approach despite Senate Republicans’ favoring a two-bill strategy to quickly secure border and defense victories.
“The House has a bill and the Senate has a bill, and I’m looking at them both, and I’ll make decisions,” Trump said. “But I don’t know where they are in the vote. I know the Senate’s doing very well, and the House is doing very well, but each one of them has things that I like, so we’ll see if we can come together.”
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