Summary
House Republicans narrowly passed their budget resolution by a vote of 217-215, a big win for Speaker Mike Johnson with an extremely slim GOP majority.
The measure begins the process to implement Trump’s legislative agenda through reconciliation, requiring only a simple majority to pass, but both the House and Senate must adopt the exact same resolution.
Democrats, fearing massive Medicaid cuts, strongly opposed the resolution and scrambled to get members to the floor, including Rep. Brittany Petterson, on maternity leave, and Rep. Kevin Mullin, who used a walker.
The resolution now heads to the Senate.
It’s unclear to me how that happens. Don’t they officially adjourn? Why are people going home when there’s a government takeover and the day has not officially ended?
Iirc they can call a vote whenever they want until the session is officially put on break. The counter balance is requiring a quorem to vote.
Honestly, I did some looking, and I can’t find anything that lays it out clearly enough for me to be 100%, but I’m pretty sure congress has to officially still be in a legislative day for a vote to happen.