Trump’s megabill faces high-stakes US House vote amid divisions
Moderate and conservative Republican lawmakers threaten to sink package, defying president ahead of July 4 deadline
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Donald Trump’s multitrillion-dollar tax bill was running into resistance in the House as moderate and ultraconservative Republican lawmakers threatened to defy the US president and sink his domestic agenda.
House lawmakers were returning to Washington from a holiday week to vote on Wednesday on the Senate version of the bill, which squeaked through that chamber on Vice-President J.D. Vance’s tiebreaking vote.
House Speaker Mike Johnson can afford to lose only three Republican votes in the face of unified Democratic opposition, if all members are present and voting. Republicans Warren Davidson and Thomas Massie, who voted against the bill in May, remain firm no votes.
Johnson’s No 2, Steve Scalise, projected optimism on Tuesday. “We’re going to get it done tomorrow,” he told reporters.
But Congressman Chip Roy, a hardline conservative who balked at the cost of the House’s earlier bill but ultimately supported it, said “a significant number” of lawmakers were concerned about the Senate version of the bill.
