House Speaker Mike Johnson has slammed House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries over the Democrat’s speech delaying a vote on President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful” spending bill. Johnson said Republicans are eager to pass Trump’s bill in the lower chamber but must wait for Jeffries to finish his speech,

The House remained frozen in place all day Wednesday as party leaders labored to address the concerns of Republican holdouts who were resisting changes the Senate made to the party’s major policy bill.

Four Republican fiscal hawks flipped their votes in the early hours of Thursday morning to advance President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill, allowing it to come to the House floor for a final vote in the lower chamber.