{"id":8155,"date":"2025-04-10T13:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T13:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-republicans-hope-to-seal-the-budget-deal-today\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T13:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T13:04:16","slug":"house-republicans-hope-to-seal-the-budget-deal-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-republicans-hope-to-seal-the-budget-deal-today\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans hope to seal the budget deal today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>House GOP budget holdouts will meet Thursday morning to discuss their way forward after demands for deeper spending cuts in the Senate&#8217;s fiscal blueprint detailed progress Wednesday night on taking the next steps to passing President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;one big, beautiful bill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some of these holdouts, and GOP leaders, believe incoming public commitments from Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune for $1.5 trillion in cuts will flip enough votes for the budget resolution to advance today \u2014 without changes to the underlying measure.<\/p>\n<p>The House is due to return to the floor today for a vote after Johnson canceled consideration last night.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson and Thune will also address the press this morning to share updates and project unity. Meanwhile, Trump is up with a new social media post also expressing confidence that members could come up with a deal before leaving for a two-week recess.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Great News! &#8216;The Big, Beautiful Bill&#8217; is coming along really well,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Republicans are working together nicely. Biggest Tax Cuts in USA History!!! Getting close.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House GOP budget holdouts will meet Thursday morning to discuss their way forward after demands for deeper spending cuts in the Senate&#8217;s fiscal blueprint detailed progress Wednesday night on taking the next steps to passing President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;one big, beautiful bill.&#8221; Some of these holdouts, and GOP leaders, believe incoming public commitments from Speaker [&hellip;]<\/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-8155","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\/8155","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=8155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}