House GOP leaders vow to push forward with budget vote
Source: Politico
04/06/2025 03:22 PM EDT
Updated: 04/06/2025 04:48 PM EDT
House Republican leaders told their members Sunday they still plan on muscling a reworked Senate budget blueprint through the House this week, according to multiple people briefed on the plans, even as fiscal hawks say there is enough opposition to tank the measure should it come to a vote.
Several House Republicans have vowed in recent days to oppose the Senate framework, including Rep. Chip Roy of Texas — a leader of the hard-right bloc — and some other members of the House Freedom Caucus. With a 220-213 majority, Speaker Mike Johnson can lose only three Republicans on a party-line vote if all members are present and voting.
“The Senate plan that passed will easily fail on the House floor,” one House Republican said Sunday afternoon as GOP leaders tried to rally the rank and file on a conference call with their members. The fiscal hawk was granted anonymity, as were the other people, to speak candidly about private conversations and the state of play.
On the call, GOP leaders argued that House Republicans desperately need to advance the Senate-approved plan without changes or else trigger another month of delays in the process, according to two other people with direct knowledge of the conversation.
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