Vice President J.D. Vance Cast Deciding Vote on Budget Reconciliation Passage In the Senate
Overview
Just a few minutes ago, Vice President J.D. Vance cast the deciding vote, breaking a 50-50 vote tie – in the U.S. Senate’s vote on final passage of an amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 1 – The One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
During a marathon vote-a-rama, only a few amendments were approved, with most be rejected – including an amendment offered by Senator Hirono *D-HI) to eliminate a program of qualified elementary and secondary education scholarships for public, private, or religious schools.
What’s Next
The Senate passed version of the bill will now return to the U.S. House of Representatives for consideration. The House Committee on Rules will meet later today to establish the rules for debate in the House which is scheduled to begin first thing tomorrow morning.
The House must approve the legislation as amended by the Senate without any changes for the legislation to be enacted and sent to President Trump for his signature for the bill to become law.
Similar to the narrow vote in the Senate, the ability for Speaker of the House Johnson to deliver a majority vote on the legislation is not a certainty at this time. Conservatives with the House GOP have already shared concerns with the Senate rewrite and it remains to be seen if the House Leadership and the White House will be able to hold the House Republicans together on a bill that comes back to them considerably different from the legislation they sent to the Senate on June 22nd.
CSPEN will continue to provide coverage on the progression of the Budget Reconciliation bill tomorrow morning, but for now, our attention shifts to the afternoon deliberations on the red-line proposals revising portions of the federal regulations being negotiated at the Department of Education.
