Source: CNN
“Rep. Andy Ogles personally warned Speaker Mike Johnson not to go ahead Wednesday with a contentious House vote essential to advancing President Donald Trump’s agenda that had drawn scorn from the right. After hours of scrambling to convince the Tennessee Republican and a dozen other defectors, Johnson finally obliged. The speaker punted Wednesday night on that key vote on the Senate Republicans’ budget blueprint after failing to appease a group of House GOP conservatives demanding steep spending cuts. Now, GOP leaders will spend the coming hours in thorny talks about how to come up with more spending cuts — despite the Senate GOP’s firm resistance to any changes to their plan. Trump had spent recent days, even amid his own political calamity on his escalating trade war, trying to rescue the plan.” (04/09/25)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/politics/gop-conservatives-johnson-budget-vote/index.html