Quick Hit:

The House passed President Trump’s “big, beautiful” budget plan Thursday morning, delivering a major win for his agenda. The bill passed 216–214 and sets up deep spending cuts, an extension of Trump’s tax cuts, and new funding for border security.

Key Details:

• Just two Republicans—Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Victoria Spartz of Indiana—voted against the bill. No Democrats supported the resolution.

• Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate GOP Leader John Thune held a press conference ahead of the vote, with Johnson declaring, “We can move forward on President Trump's very important agenda for the American people… our first big, beautiful reconciliation package.”

• The resolution aims to cut at least $1.5 trillion in federal spending while expanding Trump-era tax policies and boosting funding for defense, border security, and eliminating taxes on tipped and overtime wages.

Diving Deeper:

The House of Representatives narrowly passed a Republican-crafted budget resolution Thursday morning, marking a critical step toward enacting President Trump’s legislative priorities through reconciliation—the fast-track process that allows fiscal policy to pass the Senate with just 51 votes.

Speaker Mike Johnson called the vote a “big, beautiful” win for the conservative agenda, tying it directly to Trump’s push to overhaul spending and revive the 2017 tax cuts. “We can move forward on President Trump's very important agenda for the American people,” Johnson said during a press conference with Senate GOP Leader John Thune. “Our first big, beautiful reconciliation package here involves a number of commitments…including at least $1.5 trillion in savings.”

The resolution faced resistance from GOP fiscal hawks, delaying Wednesday’s expected vote and forcing Johnson into last-minute negotiations. At one point Wednesday night, an unrelated vote was held open for over an hour while Johnson huddled privately with a group of holdouts. “He kept the entire conference out on the floor for 80 minutes while you play graba** with these people,” one frustrated Republican told Fox News Digital. Another added, “All the chatter we were hearing was [holdouts were] down to single digits. But 17… 20 people were in that room.”

Despite the chaos, the final bill passed 216 to 214 with only two Republican defections. The legislation paves the way for a broader policy push that includes extending Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act—provisions of which expire at the end of this year—and delivering new funding for Trump’s proposal to eliminate federal taxes on tipped and overtime wages.

Republicans also aim to strip out large portions of Biden-era spending on green energy and entitlements, while raising the debt ceiling ahead of a looming summer deadline to avoid a default. The House version calls for $1.5 trillion in cuts, while the Senate’s version mandates at least $4 billion—a gap that lawmakers will now have to reconcile.