House Passes Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful’ Budget Resolution Providing MASSIVE Tax Relief for Ordinary Americans.
By William Upton, The NationalPulse.com, February 25, 2025
The U.S. House of Representatives has narrowly passed an all-in-one budget plan bill unexpectedly late Tuesday night. The legislation was pulled in the afternoon after it appeared dead on arrival.
However, after several Republican members dropped their opposition, lawmakers were called back to Capitol Hill by Speaker Johnson in order to vote on the legislation which contains President Donald J. Trump’s plans for no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, tax relief for senior citizens, tax breaks for products manufactured in the United States, and a requirement that budgets be at least deficit neutral.
The bill passed strictly along partisan lines, with 217 Republicans voting in favor and 215 Democrats opposed.
Now, the House budget bill will head to the Senate, where Republican lawmakers will need to adopt it to begin the budget reconciliation process. Ultimately, Republican lawmakers intend to use reconciliation to address the budget, border security funding, and an extension of expiring provisions in President Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
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The House floor was the scene of some drama tonight—what else is new?—as Republicans launched a last-minute push to drag a few GOP holdouts over the finish line to pass the budget resolution.
Earlier in the night, Republican leadership brought the resolution to the floor, only to pull it back before voting could be completed, reportedly because the GOP had a few more votes to whip. Once those were secured, the resolution came to the floor again.
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The party-line vote was 217-213 in favor, with three House members abstaining. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) was the lone Republican holdout. He had indicated earlier in the day that he would vote no.
“If the Republican plan passes, under the rosiest assumptions, which aren't even true, we're going to add $328 billion to the deficit this year, we're going to add $295 billion to the deficit the year after that, $242 billion to the deficit after that,” Massie said. “Why would I vote for that?”
Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters he had spoken to President Trump multiple times today: "He knows exactly what we're doing and why."
According to the House Budget Committee, the resolution would:
- Provide tax relief for working families and small businesses;
- Reverse the Biden-Harris administration’s whole of government assault on domestic energy;
- Rein in reckless spending that lit the fuse on inflation;
- Give the Trump-Vance administration the critical resources they need to secure our border and strengthen our national security.
President Trump had enthusiastically endorsed the plan, posting on X over the weekend:
"The House and Senate are doing a SPECTACULAR job of working together as one unified, and unbeatable, TEAM, however, unlike the Lindsey Graham version of the very important Legislation currently being discussed, the House Resolution implements my FULL America First Agenda, EVERYTHING, not just parts of it! We need both Chambers to pass the House Budget to “kickstart” the Reconciliation process, and move all of our priorities to the concept of, “ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL.” It will, without question, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
He was reportedly making last-minute calls to round up the stragglers.
Democrats, meanwhile, continued screeching about imaginary cuts to Medicaid.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Fox News, "We do not need to cut a single dollar from someone from Social Security or someone from Medicaid... or someone who actually deserves the money—not a single dollar. What we're going to attack is the waste, fraud, and abuse." Democrats apparently are fighting to PROTECT those who are getting benefits from fraud.
I wrote earlier today: "Cutting waste, fraud, and abuse isn't taking money out of the pockets of senior citizens or anyone else. Nor is it slashing Medicare or Medicaid benefits."
Expect to see more hysteria from the left over the phantom cuts.
The resolution now goes to the Senate.
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