The House of Representatives voted 216-213 to approve President Donald Trump’s spending cuts bill. The recission legislation was a companion piece to the One Big, Beautiful Bill, which passed two weeks ago. Two Republicans voted “no”: Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa) and Mike Turner (R-Ohio).
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In a Thursday morning vote, the Senate voted 51-48 to advance the package, which sent the measure back to the House for a final vote. Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) switched sides and voted with the Democrats — a move that shouldn’t surprise anybody.
Both houses of Congress needed to pass the bill by Friday because, as CBS puts it, “Both chambers need to approve the request before it expires at the end of the week,
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