{"id":10911,"date":"2025-07-03T06:31:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T06:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/final-megabill-votes-are-secured-gop-leaders-say\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T06:31:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T06:31:46","slug":"final-megabill-votes-are-secured-gop-leaders-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/final-megabill-votes-are-secured-gop-leaders-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Final megabill votes are secured, GOP leaders say"},"content":{"rendered":"
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House Republican leaders said early Thursday morning they have made a breakthrough with the megabill holdouts and are preparing to advance the legislation in the coming hours. <\/p>\n

Speaker Mike Johnson<\/a>, heading onto the House floor around 2 a.m., said he had secured the votes to proceed and that final passage of the GOP’s domestic policy bill<\/a> will follow later in the morning. A vote on the procedural measure setting up final consideration remains open after several hours of voting. \u201cHopefully in the next hour we get that done,\u201d House Majority Leader Steve Scalise<\/a> said of completing that vote.<\/p>\n

Once the House approves the procedural measure, it will debate the bill before moving to a final vote, which could take multiple hours. <\/p>\n

Earlier Thursday morning, Johnson said, \u201cThis is going to end well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to meet our July 4 deadline, which everybody made fun of me for saying,\u201d he added, holding a can of Celsius energy drink after a full-day blitz of discussions with the skeptical lawmakers that he said involved the help of the attorneys, Cabinet secretaries, and President Donald Trump himself.<\/p>\n

The negotiations were not aimed at cutting a deal with the holdouts \u201cbecause then you open Pandora\u2019s box,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cWe just deal with everybody in truth, and we find out where the red lines are, and we try to navigate around them and get a product that everybody can buy into.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

House Republican leaders said early Thursday morning they have made a breakthrough with the megabill holdouts and are preparing to advance the legislation in the coming hours. Speaker Mike Johnson, heading onto the House floor around 2 a.m., said he had secured the votes to proceed and that final passage of the GOP’s domestic policy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}