Three Democrats Who Died This Year Would Have Sunk Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill' [View all]
President Donald Trumps big, beautiful spending bill squeaked through the House on Thursday morning in a in a 215214 vote.
Two Republicans, Reps. Thomas Massie and Warren Davidsonvoted against it. GOP Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland, chair of the hardline House Freedom Caucus, voted present, and two other Republicans, Reps. Andrew Garbarino and David Schweikert, missed the vote.
All of the House Democrats voted against Trumps sprawling spending plan, but they were missing three congressmen who could have sunk the bills passage Thursday.
Just a day before the vote, the family of Rep. Gerry Connolly confirmed the Virginia Democrat had died at age 75, weeks after announcing his esophageal cancer had returned. Connolly had first revealed his diagnosis shortly after winning re-election last November.
His passage was the third in a string of Democratic deaths in the House over the past three months, following the deaths of Rep. Sylvester Turner, 70, and Rep. Raúl Grijalva, 77, in March.
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