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(NewsNation) — House Speaker Mike Johnson said helium believes determination are present capable votes successful the House to walk President Donald Trump's fund resolution.
The determination comes aft an abrupt halt to voting connected Wednesday aft immoderate GOP holdouts refused to beforehand a Senate-approved fund due to the fact that it does not chopped capable spending. The fund is captious to Trump's docket of taxation cuts, wide deportations and a simplification successful the size of the national government.
Trump took to societal media level Truth Social connected quality of the votes, saying "Great News! 'The Big, Beautiful Bill is coming on truly well. Republicans are moving unneurotic nicely. Biggest Tax Cuts successful USA History!!! Getting close."
Johnson, R-La., called the overnight deliberations successful Congress "productive."
"Our 2 chambers are straight aligned besides connected a precise important rule of fiscal responsibility," Johnson said. "We are the enactment that delivers and ensures that."
The House acceptable a mandate of $1.5 trillion successful spending cuts to equilibrium retired taxation cuts, antithetic from the Senate's $4 billion. Johnson said with those cuts, programs similar Medicaid would inactive beryllium near successful spot and claimed the Democrats' warnings of it being chopped were false.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune affirmed Johnson's connection of being aligned connected making definite the state is enactment connected a much sustainable fiscal path. Thune, R-S.D., said a bulk of Senators spot the projected $1.5 trillion successful cuts arsenic a minimum.
"We're acceptable to determination guardant connected hoping the Speaker and his colleagues tin win contiguous and get the fund solution passed," Thune said "It's perfectly indispensable that we enactment truly hard to spot what we tin bash to marque the authorities much businesslike and accountable to the American taxpayer."
