The House narrowly passed the Senate’s budget blueprint on Thursday, notching another win for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.).

The vote was initially set to take place Wednesday night but was later postponed by Johnson after it became clear there wasn’t enough support from fiscal conservatives to pass the budget. Ultimately, the blueprint passed in a 216-214 vote, with Republican Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Victoria Spartz of Indiana voting against it.

“If you were trying to hasten financial collapse of our country and bribe voters to go along with it, the strategy wouldn’t look much different than what Congress is doing today,” Massie said. “The big beautiful bill cuts taxes while keeping spending on an increasingly unsustainable trajectory.”

The House and Senate have already passed their own blueprints that included $1.5 trillion and $4 billion in cuts, respectively. With the House taking up the Senate’s budget proposal, lawmakers have had difficulty reconciling the vast spending gap.

‘Our ambition in the Senate is we are aligned in the House in terms of savings. We’re certainly gonna do everything we can to be as aggressive as possible.’

Despite the backing of President Donald Trump’s administration, fiscal conservatives disapproved of the Senate’s budget, arguing that the proposed $4 billion in cuts are just a drop in the bucket in addressing the national debt. On the Senate side, lawmakers are insisting that their blueprint will give them enough wiggle room and that they are ultimately aiming to implement more aggressive cuts beyond their $4 billion target.

If the House’s ambitious blueprint with $1.5 trillion in cuts were passed, committees would likely be unable to meet the required cuts, which would kill the reconciliation process altogether. Simply put, the Senate doesn’t have the same appetite for cuts that the House Freedom Caucus and other fiscal conservatives do.

Nevertheless, some holdouts warmed up to the budget blueprint after Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) held a joint press conference with Johnson Thursday morning.

“Our ambition in the Senate is we are aligned in the House in terms of savings,” Thune said. “We’re certainly gonna do everything we can to be as aggressive as possible.”

“[This is] the first time publicly, the Senate leader has come out and actually said that we’re in the same ballpark with the House and Senate reductions,” House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris (R-Md.) said Thursday. “Obviously we were happy with the House spending reduction because we all voted for it, so I think that’s a step in a positive direction.”

Other Republicans like Rep. Marlin Stutzman of Indiana, who were initially undecided, came around to supporting the budget after meeting with Johnson.

“I voted to pass the Trump-endorsed budget resolution before the House today so Congress can unlock the reconciliation process, which will grow the economy, increase American energy production, secure our border, and decrease spending to the same levels that House Republicans passed six weeks ago,” Stutzman told Blaze News. “It is time American citizens and fixing our national debt take priority over wasteful, unnecessary spending.”

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