US Congress passes Trump-backed price range invoice

The US Home of Representatives has handed a price range invoice that features huge cuts to taxes and authorities spending on Thursday regardless of opposition from Democrats and Republican hard-liners.

The spending plan is a key plank in Donald Trump’s legislative agenda and he has known as it a “massive, lovely invoice”.

After the 216-214 vote, Trump posted on social media: “Congratulations to the Home on the passage of a Invoice that units the stage for one of many Best and Most Necessary Signings within the Historical past of our Nation.”

Nonetheless the Home invoice has a lot deeper spending cuts than the model handed by the US Senate, and the 2 variations should now be merged into one invoice for him to signal into legislation.

The merger course of is known as “reconciliation”.

The Home handed the price range invoice largely alongside social gathering traces, with all Democrats voting in opposition to, together with two Republicans – Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Victoria Spartz of Indiana.