House Democrats are calling for “maximum attendance” among their members to help defeat the House Republican tax and spending plan due on the floor this week.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will attempt to thread a narrow needle this week when House Republicans vote on a budget framework that would extend President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and calls for trillions in spending cuts. Johnson faces multiple possible holdouts from the center and right flanks of his party — which, given the narrow 218-215 majority, means he can lose only one vote with full attendance.
“Given the expected closeness of the ...