House Republicans early Thursday morning advanced President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” after a marathon day of negotiations and a dramatic overnight vote.
GOP leaders kept the vote open for almost six hours as they tried to convince the “no” votes to flip and tried to win over those who haven’t yet to cast a ballot.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Trump spent much of the day trying to win over deficit hawks in the House Freedom Caucus and beyond who have threatened to block the bill and grind floor action to a halt.
And Trump spoke with several of the holdouts by phone around 1 a.m.
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