With a push from President Donald Trump, House Republicans sent a GOP budget blueprint to passage Tuesday, a step toward delivering his big, beautiful bill with USD4.5 trillion in tax breaks and USD2 trillion in spending cuts despite a wall of opposition from Democrats and discomfort among Republicans. House Speaker Mike Johnson had almost no votes to spare in his bare-bones GOP majority and was fighting on all fronts against Democrats, uneasy rank-and-file Republicans and skeptical GOP senators to advance the party's signature legislative package. Trump was making calls to wayward GOP lawmakers and had invited Republicans to the White House. The vote was 217-215, with all Democrats opposed, and the outcome was in jeopardy until the gavel. On a vote like this, you're always going to have people you're talking to all the way through the close of the vote, Majority Leader Steve Scalise said before the roll call. It's that tight. Passage of the package is crucial to kickstarting the