Republicans in the House of US Representatives narrowly accepted the bill for many billions of dollars on the government on Tuesday, a major impetus for President Donald Trump, who is progressing in his program for 2025.
The 217-215 vote is seen as a key early test for the speaker of the Republican House Mike Johnson, who canceled an earlier vote as there seems to be not enough support.
Several Republicans wanted more fiscal discipline than a budget, which includes $ 4.5 trillion tax reduction in partly funded by reducing costs, but also by a potential increase in the significant pile of US government debt.
But in the end, the bill crossed party lines, with all Democrats voting against and only one Republican opposed.
This Republican was Thomas tables of Kentucky, a prominent fiscal hawk that wanted deeper cost redundancy. A Democrat does not vote.
The budget of the house is looking for $ 2 trillion costs over the next 10 years to pay for President Trump's agenda. It includes more than $ 100 billion for new costs of implementing immigration and military.
He will also expand the tax breaks accepted during his first service mandate, which must expire at the end of the year.
However, there are still a number of steps through which the cost plan has to go to become a law.
The budget will have to be combined with a separate budget viewed by the US Senate in a process called reconciliation.
And even if both chambers eventually agree to a cost plan, much more details will have to be agreed before they can be sent to President Trump's Bureau to be signed.
Republican chamber leaders initially delayed the vote on Tuesday when it was not clear whether they would have enough support to pass the measure.
President Johnson and the second oldest Republican House, Steve Scaleis, spent hours in work to convince party members to support the plan that, as well as tax reduction, will finance border security measures, deportations and military expenses.
Trump personally called some of the detention to encourage them to accept the bill, the two Republican leaders said.
“Trump helped us with a number of members,” Skalis told reporters. “Speaking to anyone we wanted to really have to clarify things.”
Three of the four party possessions, which were originally considered firm votes – Tim Burchet, Victoria Spartz and Warren Davidson – eventually voted for the benefit.
“We have a lot of hard work in front of us, but we will achieve the US first agenda,” Mike Johnson told the Vote to the Vote.
“We will celebrate tonight and roll up our sleeves and return immediately in the morning.”
Democrats were arranged to criticize the budget as a tax reduction, especially for wealthy ones, who said they would harm families with low incomes that rely on the government-funded Medicaid Health Program.
The party works to get as many members of the chamber as possible for the decisive vote, with the representative Brittany Petroeson arrived with her son while on maternity leave.
The Senate will be pressured to take over the Chamber's costs, because President Trump approved it, despite his individual bill introduced last week.