A Republican lawmaker apparently frustrated over getting left out was ready to get even, according to reports.
Rep. Erin Houchin (R-IN) was defiant during the House Republican Conference meeting on Tuesday and said "she was the whipping NO on the budget resolution," reported Jake Sherman, founder of Punchbowl News.
Houchin, who is a member of the Budget Committee, described her reasons.
"She said she is a no because she wasn't included in convos and wasn't invited to the meeting at Camp David," Sherman wrote on X. "HOUCHIN has a vote in the Budget Committee, a vote in the House Rules Committee and a vote on the floor."
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) met with other GOP leaders on Monday at Camp David to discuss a reconciliation bill that is primarily funded by cuts to funding for Medicare, Medicaid and several other social service programs, Politico reported.
House Republicans were pushing a third reconciliation package in Congress, according to The Washington Post. The move followed one bill that cut taxes at a cost of roughly $3.4 trillion over 10 years and another that approved nearly $70 billion for immigration enforcement, funding those agencies through the remainder of Trump's term.
This latest push would combine $350 billion in fresh Pentagon spending with the Save America Act, which would require voters to present proof of citizenship and ID at the polls, The Post reported. The GOP effort was up against a tight legislative calendar, since the House is set to leave Washington at the end of next week for the August recess, while the Senate departs Aug. 7 until mid-September, leaving a small window to finish the process before the midterms.