House Republicans have advanced the budget resolution from 217 to 215 on Tuesday evening, clearing the first steps to enact President Donald Trump’s first year legislative agenda.
GOP leadership is narrow aisle The budget framework is a sigh of relief for speaker Mike Johnson, who first pulled the resolution out of the floor, leading to speculation that Republicans don’t have the vote to pass the budget blueprint. Ta. House GOP leadership successfully reversed Republican representatives. (Related: GOP refutes Dem Fearmaging about budget invoices with one simple fact)
Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massey was the only GOP lawmaker to oppose the bill.
House Republicans opened the votes on the front floor for over an hour, trying to flip some GOP holdouts before voting for the budget resolution. That effort appeared to have failed House GOP leadership by voting for the resolution.
My joint statement with a majority leader@Stevescalese, @gopmajoritywhipand @housegop
chairman @ReplisamCclain Passing House Budget Resolution:Today, House Republicans moved through Congress closer to the delivery of President Trump’s first national agenda. pic.twitter.com/x2wy7sfr3z
– Speaker Mike Johnson (@speakerjohnson) February 26, 2025
“The American people have overwhelmingly chosen to govern us, and passing this budget today is a critical step in submitting that mission,” says Kevin, Republican Policy Chair in Oklahoma. -Hern said following the floor vote. “This is a victory for Americans and a commitment to ensuring a stronger, more prosperous future.”
Johnson told reporters that House Republicans have the vote to pass the budget resolution early Thursday.
Facing the unchanging task of persuading conservative fiscal Hawks and central Republican lawmakers to agree to budget resolutions, Johnson led the majority of the smallest home in American history. He has repeatedly said that the House “one big and beautiful bill” is the best approach to meeting the president’s first year tax and spending priorities.
“There’s no plan,” Johnson said. I said Reporter before the vote. “This is the only plan we’re implementing.”
He also overcame the great pressure to implement a budget resolution on Tuesday as the president supported the House GOP budget proposal on February 19th and the Senate is pushing all his might in competing budget plans.
Senate Majority Leader John Tune led the GOP Senator on February 21st. The senator threw the budget blueprint as a backup plan, just in case Johnson fails to resolve his own budget.
The House budget resolution approves a deficit increase of up to $4.5 trillion, implements the president’s tax agenda and aims to cut spending between $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion. The House resolution also approves a $4 trillion increase in statutory debt restrictions.
On Tuesday evening, three House Democrats’ surprise attendees complicate the floor mathematics of GOP leadership and passed a budget resolution. House GOP leadership could afford to lose just one GOP vote, with Florida Democrats, Florida Frederica Wilson, Colorado’s Brittany Petersen and California’s Kevin Marin attending.
Democrat Arizona Rep. Raul Griarba did not vote. Grijalva, who was diagnosed with cancer in February 2024, voted only one vote in the 119th Congress after he decided to be re-elected.
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