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Scripps News on MSNDemocratic Rep. Pettersen challenges GOP's budget bill with newborn in towColorado, carried her newborn to vote against the GOP budget, expressing frustration over the denial of proxy voting and advocating for new parents' rights.
U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen traveled Tuesday from Colorado to Washington, D.C., carrying her month-old infant in her arms to vote against a Republican budget plan the Lakewood Democrat described as
Speaker Johnson and Rep. Arrington were able to unite the House Republicans in passing the budget resolution, including a path for tax reform.
The congresswoman, who's currently on maternity leave, came back to D.C. to vote against the Republican budget resolution.
Democratic Rep. Brittany Pettersen was denied the option of voting remotely or using a proxy, so she took matters—and her baby—into her own hands to make her vote count.
Their return, including Rep. Brittany Pettersen with her newborn and Rep. Kevin Mullin with an IV, forced Republicans to scramble to just barely pass their budget bill.
The razor-thin Republican majority in Congress and a few waffling members made every vote even more meaningful than usual.
The answer is on expiring tax cuts that were originally passed during Trump’s first administration. CNN Politics shares, “In order to offset those tax cuts, Republicans need to find cuts. One option being seriously considered is to squeeze up to $880 billion from federal programs over 10 years, including Medicaid.”
House Democrats proved on Tuesday night that attendance in the chamber does matter when it comes to contentious legislation, bolstering the bipartisan push for proxy voting, on which leadership doesn’
One lawmaker, Scott Fitzgerald, told reporters he was ‘already in my pajamas’ when he got the call to return to the Capitol for the vote, which
Republicans, who already have ruled out massive cuts to Social Security and Medicare, are turning their attention to siphoning as much as $880 billion from Medicaid over the next decade to help
The $4.5 trillion budget blueprint narrowly passed along party lines, paving the way for Republicans to secure policy wins for President Donald Trump.
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