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A Republican congressman missed the House of Representatives vote on President Donald Trump‘s sweeping budget package early Thursday morning because he was asleep, Speaker Mike Johnson has said.
“I just want you to know for the record, we really had 217 votes this morning. Andrew Garbarino did not make it in time. He fell asleep in the back, no kidding. I’m going to strangle him. But he’s my dear friend,” Johnson joked at a press conference after the vote.
In a razor-thin 215—214 vote, the Republican-led House pushed through the more-than-1,000-page bill in what was the first major legislative milestone of Trump’s second term in office.
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