from the NYT
The House took its first step early Thursday toward a final vote on President Trump’s marquee domestic policy bill, after Republicans put down a revolt by conservative holdouts that had threatened to sink it.
After a day and night of paralysis on the House floor, and haggling and uncertainty in the Capitol, Speaker Mike Johnson scored a preliminary victory in his bid to overcome resistance within his party when the House voted to allow the bill to come up for debate. The 219-to-213 vote suggested he had won the backing of recalcitrant Republicans whose resistance had stalled the measure, though the House still had to take a final vote to approve it.
Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, was delaying the vote on Thursday morning by using his prerogative as a leader to take far more than his allotted one minute to speak, assailing the bill as a “disgusting abomination” that would hurt Americans. Mr. Jeffries began speaking before 5 a.m. Eastern and has spent much of his time reading testimonials from Americans who said they relied on Medicaid and worried that cuts to the program would upend their lives...
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