The House on Thursday adopted the resolution Republicans needed to get moving on their sweeping budget bill to enact many of their top legislative priorities, after several days of negotiations with conservative holdouts.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said his chamber would adhere to the House’s much-higher floor for spending cuts in the eventual budget reconciliation package, an emphatic public statement that enough House conservatives needed to hear before voting for the budget blueprint.
The measure was adopted on a narrow 216-214 vote. No Democrats supported it and Republicans Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Victoria Spartz of Indiana voted “no.”
