After more than an hour of labored negotiations with conservative holdouts, House G.O.P. leaders yanked their blueprint for the president’s tax and spending package, lacking the votes to pass it.
Hard-line conservatives concerned about the deficit are among President Trump’s most stalwart supporters in Congress. But they say they cannot in good conscience back the budget plan he has endorsed.
Representative Eric Burlison, Republican of Missouri, is one of about a dozen hard-line conservatives who have said they cannot back their party’s budget blueprint to unlock President Trump’s spending and tax cuts.
Other former FERC officials warned ex-FERC chair Neil Chatterjee’s message could prompt an exodus of talented staff at the agency that regulates the nation’s interstate pipelines and electricity markets at a critical period for the power industry.
President Joe Biden’s signing of the Inflation Reduction Act triggered a “race across states” for its hundreds of billions of dollars. And Walz swung into action.
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