House Conservatives Fold on Budget Deal With Little More Than a Pinky Promise From Leadership
‘You watch. Next year, we’ll spend more money than we did this year,’ Congressman Thomas Massie, who voted no on the bill, tells the Sun.

President Trump’s “one big beautiful bill” will advance to the next step in the coming weeks. Roughly two dozen debt hawk holdouts, who helped delay the vote on Wednesday night, folded to Speaker Johnson and Senator Thune on Thursday morning after the two leaders said they would cut more funding, though those guarantees amount to little more than a pinky promise.
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