The U.S House of Representatives has approved President Donald Trump’s massive domestic policy bill in 218-214 vote, sending it to his desk for signature.
The package, passed by the Senate in a marathon session earlier this week, includes tax cuts and funding boosts for the Pentagon and border security.
It also includes more contentious spending cuts to pay for the rest of the bill, including the biggest downsizing of the federal safety net decades.
House Republican passed the bill by vote of 218-214, nearly entirely along party lines. All 212 Democrats voted in unison against the bill and they were joined by two Republicans, Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Brain Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania.
Leaders were force to work all night to win the votes necessary to pass the bill and meet Trump’s demand to sign the bill by Friday July 4.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, pledged in a speech on the House floor that the bill would make the U. S “stronger, safer and more prosperous than ever before”
“Today we are laying a key cornerstone of America’s new golden age”, he said.
-9News Nigeria.
