Sweeping legislation will now be sent to the Senate

Here is a little bit more detail on Trump’s tax cut bill passing in the House.

It passed in a 215-214 vote, with all of the chamber’s Democrats and two Republicans voting against it. A third Republican voted “present.”

With a narrow 220-212 majority, House Speaker Mike Johnson could not afford to lose more than a handful of votes from his side.

Republicans on the party’s right flank had pushed for deeper spending cuts to lessen the budget impact, but they met resistance from centrists who worried they would fall too heavily on the 71 million low-income Americans enrolled in the Medicaid health program.