Republicans unified behind a budget blueprint on Tuesday evening, just barely scraping together the votes to advance Donald Trump’s sprawling tax-cut and immigration agenda over unanimous Democratic opposition and widespread concern that it would slash social safety net programs.
The House approved the plan in a vote of 217-215, with Thomas Massie, a prominent fiscal hawk, as the lone Republican representative voting in opposition. No Democrats supported the measure, which they have cast as a betrayal of middle- and low-income voters on behalf of “billionaire donors” like Trump’s chief lieutenant, Elon Musk.
