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House Passes G.O.P. Budget After Conservative Revolt Collapses

A critical bloc of fiscal hawks dropped its opposition after a pledge from the top Senate Republican that his chamber would embrace far deeper cuts than the measure would require.

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Speaker Mike Johnson and Senator John Thune of South Dakota, the majority leader, at the Capitol on Thursday.Credit...Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

Catie Edmondson

By Catie Edmondson

Reporting from the Capitol

April 10, 2025

The House on Thursday narrowly adopted a Republican budget blueprint for slashing taxes and government spending, after hard-line conservatives concerned that it would balloon the nation’s debt ended a revolt that had threatened to derail President Trump’s domestic agenda.

Approval of the plan, which was in doubt until nearly the very end, was a victory for Republican leaders and Mr. Trump. It allowed them to move forward with crafting major legislation to enact a huge tax cut, financed with deep reductions in spending on federal programs, and pushing it through Congress over Democratic opposition.

“President Trump’s promises will be fulfilled,” Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters just off the House floor shortly after the vote, “and we’re really excited that today we took a big step in getting that done.”

But approval came only after a mutiny on the House floor on Tuesday night that underscored the deep divisions Republicans still have to bridge in order to push through what Mr. Trump has called his “big, beautiful bill.” It forced Mr. Johnson to delay a planned vote on the measure after he spent more than an hour Wednesday night huddled with the holdouts, trying without success to persuade them to support it.

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The vote on Thursday was 216 to 214, with two Republicans opposing the measure.