House Republicans rescued their “big, beautiful” reconciliation bill from an early death in the Senate Wednesday by passing a measure deleting various provisions that would have violated Senate budget rules.
To avoid a stand-alone vote on the fixes, automatic adoption of the resolution correcting the engrossment of the House reconciliation bill was embedded in a rule needed for floor debate of an unrelated bill that would cancel $9.4 billion in foreign aid and public broadcasting funds. The House adopted the rule on a nearly party-line vote of 213-207.
Rules Chairwoman Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., said during floor debate that no new provisions were added to the reconciliation bill. She said the corrections measure only deleted some provisions for technical reasons “to make sure this big, beautiful bill has its day in the Senate.”
