Vulnerable House members on both sides were forced to take tough votes in the early-morning passage of President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” ahead of a bruising 2026 midterm cycle that will decide control of the chamber.
Every House member who could face a competitive re-election next year stuck with their party on the vote — including Republicans who will be defending battleground districts and their paper-thin majority at the midpoint of Trump’s second term. Only three Republicans, all fiscal-hawk hardliners from strongly conservative districts, withheld their support from the sweeping reconciliation measure (H.R. 1) that the House passed ...