Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives are scrambling Wednesday to vote on President Donald Trump’s tax and spending cuts package, the Associated Press reports. The news comes after a hard-fought vote saw its passage in the Senate on Tuesday and ahead of a July 4 deadline imposed by the president himself.
Republicans’ House majority stands at just 220-212, which leaves little room for defections, although some may balk at the request to rubber stamp the Senate bill under 24 hours after passage, having little time to digest the changes made.
Some House Republicans have opposed the Senate bill’s cuts to Medicaid, while conservatives have generally criticized the bill’s deviation from their fiscal goals.
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