


In the wee hours of the morning, before daybreak on the East Coast, the House finally managed to advance President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill and only lost one vote in the process. No, it wasn’t Thomas Massie. This came after the Freedom Caucus finally flipped to support the bill.
The vote was 219-213, with moderate Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick voting against it.
At the moment, the House is being delayed by a stall tactic but should vote sometime today, possibly this afternoon.
Here’s more from Fox News:
Lawmakers voted to proceed with debate on the mammoth-sized Trump agenda bill in the early hours of Thursday – a mechanism known as a “rule vote” – teeing up a final House-wide vote sometime later Thursday morning.
The House adopted the rules for debate on the measure in a dramatic 219 to 213 vote – with all but moderate Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., voting to proceed.
Next comes a vote on the actual measure, likely sometime on Thursday.
But the timing is largely contingent on when Jeffries finishes speaking.
Hakeem Jeffries is stalling the House with a delay tactic. Here’s what they are talking about…
The House of Representatives’ progress on President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” has temporarily come to a screeching halt thanks to the chamber’s top Democrat.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., began speaking in the chamber minutes before 5 a.m. and appears to be poised for hours more.
One GOP lawmaker told Fox News Digital that Jeffries was seen arriving with multiple binders, one of which he read from for roughly three hours. If the rest of the binders also hold portions of his speech, the New York Democrat could keep the House floor paused into the afternoon.
He’s able to command the House floor via a “magic minute,” a privilege for party leaders in the chamber that allows them to speak for however long they want.