Speaker of the Home Mike Johnson, R-La., leaves the Home Chamber throughout a procedural vote on the One Huge Lovely Invoice Act within the U.S. Capitol on July 2. Johnson managed to cobble collectively the votes wanted to move the ultimate rule for the invoice, setting the Home up for closing passage forward of a self-imposed July 4 deadline.
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After a vote that remained open for a number of hours as Home Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., tried to persuade 5 holdouts to advance President Trump’s signature laws, the One Huge Lovely Invoice Act, Home Republicans scored a procedural victory in a single day that places the megabill only one main vote away from closing passage. Only one Republican voted towards the rule — no Democrats voted for it.
Whereas the invoice nonetheless faces a closing vote within the Home, Johnson’s persistence allowed him and different Republican management to narrowly muster sufficient help to maneuver the invoice ahead whereas navigating a slender majority and a slew of inside celebration divisions over components of the invoice.
Home Republicans are aiming to move the laws earlier than Friday, sending it to President Trump’s desk for his signature by a self-imposed July 4 deadline.
Trump voiced his frustration with the prolonged vote collection on Fact Social, posting “FOR REPUBLICANS, THIS SHOULD BE AN EASY YES VOTE. RIDICULOUS!!!” He has not but weighed in on the invoice’s progress.
The sprawling GOP invoice — clocking in at almost 1,000 pages — represents a dramatic realignment of the federal authorities’s function in American life, shifting assets from the social security internet and investments in clear power, and reorienting them to finance trillions of {dollars} in new spending on tax cuts, immigration enforcement and nationwide protection.
