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   The House of Representatives has adopted a resolution that will eventually   
   become a massive multi-trillion-dollar bill full of President Donald   
   Trump's priorities on the border, defense, energy and taxes.   
      
   In a major victory for House GOP leaders, the resolution passed in a 217   
   to 215 vote.   
      
   All Democrats voted against the measure, along with lone Republican rebel   
   Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who was concerned about its effect on the   
   national deficit.   
      
   The next step is now for the relevant House committees to meet and build   
   their own proposals, which will eventually be returned into the framework   
   and negotiated into a compromise deal with the Senate.   
      
   It was a dramatic scene in the House chamber on Monday night as Republican   
   leaders delayed formally ending a vote for roughly 45 minutes as they   
   worked to convince conservative fiscal hawks to support the legislation.   
      
   Impatient Democrats called out loud for the vote to be closed as   
   Republicans huddled in varied groups.   
      
   Two people on the House floor told Fox News Digital that President Donald   
   Trump got involved at one point, speaking to one of the holdouts, Rep.   
   Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., by phone.   
      
   Reps. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., and Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, could be seen on   
   the phone at other points on the House floor as well, but it's not clear   
   if they were speaking with Trump.   
      
   At one point, House GOP leaders appeared to lose confidence that they had   
   enough support and abruptly canceled the planned vote.   
      
   Moments later, however, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle were rushing   
   back to the House floor and Fox News Digital was told the vote would be   
   held.   
      
   Meanwhile, three House Democrats who had been absent early in the day   
   returned for the Tuesday evening vote in dramatic fashion.   
      
   Rep. Brittany Pettersen, D-Colo., who had a baby roughly a month ago,   
   returned to the House floor with her infant to oppose the bill. And Rep.   
   Kevin Mullin, R-Calif., who was recently hospitalized for an infection,   
   appeared in the chamber aided by a walker.   
      
   House and Senate Republicans are aiming to use their majorities to advance   
   Trump's agenda via the budget reconciliation process.   
      
   It's a Senate maneuver that lowers the threshold for passage from two-   
   thirds to a simple majority, but it's used when a party controls both   
   houses of Congress and the White House because it allows that party to   
   pass its policy goals even under the slimmest margins.   
      
   And Republicans are dealing with slim margins indeed; with current   
   numbers, the House GOP can afford no more than one defection to pass   
   anything without Democratic votes if all liberals are voting.   
      
   On the Senate side, Republicans can lose no more than two of their own in   
   the reconciliation process.   
      
   The House resolution aimed to increase spending on border security, the   
   judiciary and defense by roughly $300 billion, while seeking at least $1.5   
   trillion to $2 trillion in spending cuts elsewhere.   
      
   As written, the House bill also provided $4.5 trillion to extend President   
   Donald Trump's 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act provisions, which expire at the   
   end of this year.   
      
   An amendment negotiated by House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey   
   Arrington, R-Texas, and conservatives on his panel would also force   
   lawmakers to make $2 trillion in cuts, or else risk the $4.5 trillion for   
   Trump's tax cuts getting reduced by the difference.   
      
   The resolution also fulfilled Trump's directive to act on the debt limit,   
   raising it by $4 trillion or roughly two years.   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-budget-bill-4-5-trillion-tax-cuts-   
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