The so called One Big Beautiful Bill is on the way to President Donald Trump’s desk.
Two Missouri congressman were among Republican lawmakers who stalled voting on a House procedural vote on the budget bill on Wednesday night.
By early Thursday morning Bob Onder and Eric Burlison were among the group that had yet to cast their vote. Burlison tells Missourinet, he missed an early morning phone call from President Trump.
“I was in a room; I had my phone to my side and did not know that the President was calling because my phone is always on vibrate. When I turn it off vibrate, my wife complains because my phone is constantly dinging or ringing and stuff and so just leave it on vibrate and I missed the call,” said Burlison. “But I called and talked with his staff and that’s how we ended the negotiations.”
Burlison explained why he was holding out.
“When it came back from the Senate, it had a lot of things that the Senate had watered down or weakened and some things were just mistakes,” said Burlison.” We had concerns about those. We had conversations with the White House all day about how we could address these concerns through executive action. So then at about 2:00 AM, we got a hardened commitment on about little over half dozen items that the administration is going to commit to doing through executive action.”
Burlison said his time in the Missouri Senate helped him out for all-nighters.
” Being a Missouri senator kind of trained me for this moment. A lot of my colleagues were not used to this Congressman Bob Onder, who also served with me in the Missouri Senate. The two of us, we were weapons grade ready for a moment like this,” he said. “We kept reassuring people that the best deals don’t happen until about 2:00 AM and that’s exactly what happened.”
The bill passed a procedural vote early Thursday morning by a razor thin margin of 220-212 and a final passage of an even thinner margin of 218-214 on Thursday afternoon.
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