Rep. Thomas Massie was on the only Republican to vote "no" on the budget. House Republicans passed the budget with just two votes, 217-215.
Representative Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, voted against House Republicans' budget proposal on Tuesday night, siding with Democrats as the only GOP no vote. Newsweek reached out to Massie's office via email Tuesday for comment.
House Republicans passed their budget resolution, with all but one Republican supporting the bill in a massive win for Speaker Mike Johnson.
Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee and Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie will reintroduce legislation Wednesday afternoon to abolish the Federal Reserve.
As another budget vote looms, Republicans who have little margin for dissent to pass anything in the House are quarreling with one another. Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky took to X to slam the budget as moving in the wrong direction on the ballooning federal deficit.
House Republicans passed their budget resolution, with all but one Republican supporting the bill in a massive win for Speaker Mike Johnson.
Rep. Virginia Spartz (R-IN) was a "firm no" on the House budget resolution until she got a phone call from President Donald Trump in which he was "fuming" and "screaming" at her, reported Puck's Leigh Ann Caldwell.
Representative Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, voted against House Republicans' budget proposal on Tuesday night, siding with Democrats as the only GOP no vote. Newsweek reached out to Massie's office via email Tuesday for comment.
Democrats and Republican Thomas Massie endorsed a $4.5 trillion tax increase by voting against the budget resolution.
The agenda passed the House 217-215 and would set out a total amount of money Congress could spend to implement Trump's priorities.
The good news for Republicans is that they managed to narrowly pass a far-right budget blueprint. The bad news is that their future is still bleak.
The resolution seeks to allocate hundreds of billions of dollars in additional spending on defense, border security and energy.