Speaker Johnson scraps vote on budget blueprint for Trumps agenda amid GOP revolt

House Republican leaders scrapped plans to vote on the Senate’s budget blueprint Wednesday in a setback to President Trump’s legislative agenda — a day after the commander in chief urged lawmakers to “close your eyes and get there.”Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) huddled with hardliners for about an hour before deciding that the GOP would have to punt the vote by at least one day so lawmakers could iron out their differences.“We’re going to try to move this tomorrow.This has been a very constructive process,” Johnson, 53, told reporters after yanking the vote.

“We’re going to talk about maybe going to conference with the Senate or adding an amendment.”Trump, 78, had personally pleaded with GOP hardliners Tuesday to bite the bullet and let the blueprint go through so that leadership could get the ball rolling and address their concerns later.Johnson said he consulted Trump before pulling the vote.For weeks, House Republicans have been at loggerheads with Senate Republicans over how deep to slash spending in the sweeping Trump agenda package, which includes tax cuts, energy supply reform, border security and more.

Ultimately, the two chambers stalled on sorting out their differences, so the Senate decided to adopt a blueprint last week that included two different sets of instructions to appease both factions.In order to get the budget resolution approved, both chambers need to adopt it.Adopting the budget resolution is crucial for Republicans because it unlocks the Senate reconciliation process — which they need to pass the final Trump agenda bill by bypassing the 60-vote threshold needed to break a Democratic filibuster.Trump and House GOP leadership tried to assure hardliners that if they backed the blueprint and unlocked the reconciliation process, they would ultimately get the spending cuts they want.

“I had a very good meeting today with the Speaker of the House and some of our more Conservative Members, all great people,” Trump recapp...