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(NewsNation) — The House is expected to ballot connected President Donald Trump’s lengthy tax-cut bill aboriginal Thursday greeting aft marathon overnight meetings and eleventh-hour changes.
Despite having nary Democratic support, House talker Mike Johnson said the measure is connected way and that helium expects it to walk done the House and into the Senate — wherever it would look different uphill battle.
“To our friends successful the Senate, I would conscionable accidental the president is waiting with his pen,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said minutes earlier the ballot began.
The monolithic measure faced aggregate last-minute alterations catering to Republican holdouts, including quadrupling the headdress connected state and section taxation deductions for immoderate households and speeding up the implementation of caller enactment requirements for immoderate Medicaid beneficiaries.
Those revisions were unveiled conscionable earlier an overnight league to statement and ballot connected the measure kicked disconnected Wednesday.
Republicans volition request conscionable astir each ballot they tin get to walk this cornerstone portion of Trump’s agenda.
Trump has touted the program arsenic his "one big, beauteous bill" and the "biggest tax cut in the past of our country." An analysis from the Congressional Budget Office recovered the lowest-income households successful the United States would spot their resources driblet if it were made law.
The bureau besides predicted Trump's changes would summation national deficits by $3.8 trillion implicit the adjacent decade.
Minority person Hakeem Jeffries called Republicans "a rubber stamp for Donald Trump's utmost agenda" during his Thursday greeting remarks.
NewsNation's Anna Kutz and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
