House GOP leaders punted on trying to adopt the Senate-revised budget blueprint Wednesday after a long day of negotiations didn’t bear enough fruit to overcome the objections of more than enough spending hawks to sink the measure in the closely divided chamber.
Conservative holdouts met separately with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and his leadership team on Wednesday night and later with Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and his top lieutenants. After holding a vote on unrelated legislation open for over an hour so they could hole up in a room off the floor, Johnson emerged saying a vote would take place Thursday morning at the earliest.
“We are working through some good ideas and solutions to get everybody there. It may not happen tonight, but probably by tomorrow morning,” Johnson said.
