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President Donald Trump socialized the truth earlier Thursday, calling on Republicans who still refused to vote on the House process for the “big bill.”
As the vote stagnated, Wednesday night stagnated — “opposition” by five Republicans and eight other Republicans have not voted yet — the president touted the benefits of the country’s expected pass through the bill.
“The biggest tax cuts in history and the economy boomed, the biggest tax increase in history, the economy failed,” Trump wrote before turning his anger to Republicans. “What are Republicans waiting for?
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U.S. President Donald Trump addressed reporters on South Lawn before landing on Marine One and left the White House in Washington, D.C. on July 1, 2025. Trump is heading to Ochopee, Florida to visit the newly built immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades called the “Crocodile Alcatraz.” (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Trump later wrote that voting should be “simple” for Republicans, saying it was “ridiculous” to reserve the refusal to vote.
Procedure “rule voting” allows lawmakers to debate before the final vote on “Big Beautiful Bill” before going to the president's desk to sign.
By early Thursday, the following House Republicans hadn't had it in the procedural vote: Andrew Clyde, Georgia's representative, Brian Fitzpatrick, Keith of Texas Self, Victoria Spartz of Indiana, Thomas Massie of Kentucky – they switched from “yay” to “yay.”
When asked why he refused to vote, Massi told Fox News digits, “because most people in the world don’t care about the difference between the votes that rule solves and the votes that end up passing.”
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The following Republican lawmakers have not voted: Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma, Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Eric Burlison of Missouri, Eric Burlison of Texas, Andy Harris of Maryland, Maryland of Missori, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, and Chip Roy of Texas.
R-KY. Rep. Thomas Massie attends the House Republican Conference core meeting at the Capitol on Wednesday, June 4, 2025 (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
Burchett left other rooms that retained and criticized the bill after 1 a.m. Thursday, Burchett told reporters: “I think we're very close to solving the problem.”
But he would not say how he would vote for the law.
Republican lawmakers can only lose three votes. Republican leaders have now made the rules public for more than four hours in an attempt to put pressure on a majority.
House Speaker Mike Johnson recalled lawmakers to Washington, eager to seize the momentum of the bill the day before the Senate and vowed to push forward.
When the vote was in progress, Johnson told Fox News: “Everyone wants to achieve it.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) spoke to the media after the House nearly retweeted the bill on the agenda of President Donald Trump of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC on May 22, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
The vote that quickly summoned more than 800 pages of bills was risky gambit designed to meet Trump's demand for the end of the holiday. Republicans are struggling almost every step of the year, usually succeeding with the narrowest profits, with only one vote.
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They have a slim 220-212 majority, with little room to defect.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
