Speaker Mike Johnson was forced to punt a critical vote tonight to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda, according to multiple lawmakers and aides familiar with the plans.
House Republican leaders abruptly pulled their budget resolution from the floor on Tuesday evening after failing to secure support from a small group of conservative fiscal hawks who threatened to derail the framework for President Trump’s legislative agenda.
In a dramatic turn of events, top GOP lawmakers scrapped the scheduled vote after lobbying holdouts on the House floor for more than an hour. The previous vote remained open far longer than expected, giving leaders time to negotiate with those opposing the measure.
On Monday and Tuesday, Trump personally engaged with holdouts, including fiscal conservatives wary of its impact on the deficit and moderates concerned about possible Medicaid cuts, in an effort to secure their support for the "one big beautiful bill."
However, their attempts seem to have fallen short, marking a setback for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and his leadership team as they try to advance Trump's domestic policy agenda.
It's unclear when leaders will try again for a vote on the legislation, which sets out broad guidelines for a package encompassing Trump’s tax, border, and energy priorities, along with spending cuts to offset costs and a $4 trillion increase in the debt limit.
With time running out, Johnson has reiterated his goal to pass a budget resolution by the end of this month in hopes of having a final bill on Trump's desk by the end of May.
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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has deployed one of its largest ballistic missiles at a newly unveiled underground base on Wednesday (3 February), just two days ahead of mediated nuclear talks with the United States in Muscat, Oman.
Rivers and reservoirs across Spain and Portugal were on the verge of overflowing on Wednesday as a new weather front pounded the Iberian peninsula, compounding damage from last week's Storm Kristin.
Morocco has evacuated more than 100,000 people from four provinces after heavy rainfall triggered flash floods across several northern regions, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.
Winter weather has brought air travel in the German capital to a complete halt, stranding thousands of passengers as severe icing conditions make runways and aircraft unsafe for operation and force authorities to shut down one of Europe’s key transport hubs.
Israeli tank shelling and airstrikes killed 24 Palestinians including seven children in Gaza on Wednesday (4 February), health officials said, the latest violence to undermine the nearly four-month-old ceasefire.
The United States has accused Beijing of conducting a covert nuclear test in 2020, adding fresh strain to already fraught relations as Washington presses for a broader arms control treaty to include China as well as Russia.
A senior Russian military intelligence officer has been rushed to hospital after being shot several times in Moscow, in the latest apparent assassination attempt targeting the country’s top brass since the start of the war in Ukraine.
U.S. and Iranian delegations began Oman-mediated indirect talks on Friday (6 February) aimed at reviving diplomacy over Tehran’s nuclear programme, according to Iran’s state broadcaster, amid heightened regional tensions and warnings of possible military escalation.
An attacker opened fire at the gates of a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in Islamabad on Friday before detonating a suicide bomb that killed at least 31 people in the deadliest assault of its kind in the capital in more than ten years.
Eight vehicles caught fire on Friday (6 February) outside a wholesale fish market in Hong Kong, sending thick black smoke over parts of the Kowloon peninsula, before firefighters brought the blaze under control, authorities said.
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