Rep. Virginia Spartz (R-IN) was a "firm no" on the House budget resolution until she got a phone call from President Donald Trump in which he was "fuming" and "screaming" at her, reported Puck's Leigh Ann Caldwell.
Indiana Rep. Victoria Spartz stuck to her principles as a fiscal hawk and opposed the GOP budget resolution that would balloon the deficit by trillions of dollars — right up until Tuesday evening.
Rep. Victoria Spartz called the report that Donald Trump yelled at her over the phone during the budget resolution vote a "complete lie."
As another budget vote looms, Republicans who have little margin for dissent to pass anything in the House are quarreling with one another. Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky took to X to slam the budget as moving in the wrong direction on the ballooning federal deficit.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) managed to get a spending bill past the finish line when it passed in a very close 217-215 vote. No Democrats voted for the bill, and only one Republican joined them in voting "no": Rep.
plans to bring the legislation up for a vote on Tuesday. At least four Republicans — Reps. Thomas Massie (Ky.), Victoria Spartz (Ind.), Warren Davidson (Ohio) and Tim Burchett (Tenn.) — said they plan to vote against the measure when it hits the floor ...
Donald Trump screamed Republican Representative Victoria Spartz into submission on his disastrous budget bill, Puck reported Thursday. The Indiana congresswoman, one of the three initial holdouts on the reconciliation bill,
President Donald Trump swooped in at the eleventh hour to whip a key vote on the “big” and “beautiful” budget bill he’s championed in recent weeks. Trump successfully convinced Rep. Victoria Spartz to flip her vote to a yes Tuesday night,