In a second attempt late Sunday night, President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” prevailed in a critical committee vote after House GOP leadership managed to placate a handful of Republican deficit hawks who held out in the first go-around.
The House Budget Committee advanced its portion of the bill in a 17-16 vote along party lines while four conservative defectors from last time voted “present.”
It appears negotiations over the past couple of days were productive.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told reporters shortly before the Sunday vote that talks had been “great” and “minor modifications” were made over the weekend. The exact details were not immediately known.
Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) asserted during the meeting late Sunday that he could not say what might be changing, emphasizing that the situation was fluid.
One of the erstwhile holdouts,…
