House Speaker Mike Johnson had pulled the vote on a budget resolution to allow lawmakers to pass the “one big, beautiful bill” the president wants with an increase in defense spending, border security and increased energy exploration alongside extending the tax cuts that Trump signed in 2017.
Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who is up for re-election in North Carolina, said that Republicans needed to reauthorize the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the 2017 tax cuts that Trump signed his first year in office.
“Regardless of what happens moving forward in this budget process, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of House Republicans want to cut Medicaid, they want to gut Medicaid,” McBride told The Independent before the vote.
“This is important for the House so that the House can actually be in the driver’s seat,” House Majority Whip Tom Emmer told The Independent before the whipsaw vote.
Rich McCormick, who last week saw plenty of constituents voice their anger about Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in his bright-red district in Georgia, said he wanted to see the federal goverment get its hands off Medicaid.
