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Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump is one step nearer to getting his “massive, lovely invoice” after it handed the Home in a detailed vote early this morning.
What occurred final night time? Home Republicans had been staring down a self-imposed Memorial Day deadline to advance their invoice. Early Thursday morning, they handed the invoice 215 votes to 214.
What occurs now? The invoice will head to the Senate, the place the one certainty is one other contentious course of. Republican senators have a lengthy listing of sometimes-contradictory modifications to iron out earlier than their subsequent deadline on July 4, and a comparatively slim margin of error with their 53-member majority.
Will this truly make it to Trump’s desk? Nobody is aware of. The invoice is the centerpiece of Trump’s legislative agenda and handed the Home regardless of a fractious Republican convention, however a lot of Republican senators have already expressed issues about components of the invoice. And it might want to cross the Home once more after the Senate makes its modifications, probably a tall ask given the variety of Republican hardliners within the decrease chamber.
And with that, it’s time to sign off…
The penny is formally on its means out, as of this morning. However as we bid farewell, it’s an ideal alternative to learn Caity Weaver’s unbelievable historical past of the one-cent coin, previous efforts to get rid of it, and the mounting absurdity of its existence. One enjoyable reality from her story: Do you know the US has produced at the least sufficient pennies — some 240 billion — to offer two to each human who has ever lived?
