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Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump is one step nearer to getting his “large, lovely invoice” after it handed the Home in an in depth vote early this morning.
What occurred final evening? 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 checklist 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 really 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 variety of Republican senators have already expressed considerations about components of the invoice. And it might want to go the Home once more after the Senate makes its modifications, doubtlessly 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 dispose of it, and the mounting absurdity of its existence. One enjoyable reality from her story: Do you know the US has produced at the very least sufficient pennies — some 240 billion — to provide two to each human who has ever lived?
