February 25, 2026
The Republican blueprint to make president trump’s priorities a reality is moving forward. Tonight – after a false start, Republicans were able to pass their budget resolution. Final vote – 217 to 215
All yes votes came from Republicans. One Republican Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky joined Democrats to vote no and one member did not vote.
Now—just so we’re very clear – this is the blueprint that had to pass to unlock the pathway to get president trump’s sweeping agenda passed. I told you all about it in this video a few weeks ago. If you remember this is the budget resolution that would include $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, between $1.5-$2 trillion in spending cuts and a $4 trillion increase to the debt ceiling.
Earlier in the night – Speaker Johnson had to pull this bill from the House floor because it was on track to fail. Then something changed and 10 minutes after he pulled it — he put the resolution back up on the floor and the few republican hold outs who have been threatening to vote no all day – flipped and ultimately voted yes.
This is a perfect example of what I have been telling you since the election. Republicans in the House have a one-seat voting margin. That is an extremely difficult situation for any house speaker. But in Speaker Johnson’s case, this one vote margin makes every single Republican member vote absolutely critical. Why? Well – in this case — since this budget resolution literally has zero input from a single democrat and zero priorities that are important to Democrats– zero Democrats voted for it. Why would they? Right? So without Democrats, Speaker Johnson could only lose one Republican vote and get the resolution passed. Earlier in the night he didn’t have it. But in a twist at the end of the night, he got it done. Look, this is going to play out over and over and over throughout the next few months because the republican voting margins are not going to change until the seats left vacant by Matt Gaetz and Mike Waltz and ultimately Elise Stefanik get filled. That could be months.
As for this budget resolution – now it’s up to the Senate to vote on it. It’s likely it will pass there too. And once that’s done, all the committees in the house and Senate will use this budget resolution – as the blueprint – to write the actual policy spending bills that will achieve the spending increases or spending cuts outlined in the budget resolution. That’s when we will find out exactly how the Republicans want to cut up to $2 trillion. What programs are going to go? What agencies are going to go? That’s when things are really going to get interesting. Once those spending bills are done, getting them passed is also going to be very tricky through process called reconciliation. I’ll have more on that part when we get there.
