During the early hours of the morning on Wednesday, the House Rules Committee agreed to major changes to help satisfy the demands of Midwesterners.
House Republicans’ efforts to pass a debt ceiling plan appeared back on track Wednesday morning after GOP leadership made eleventh-hour changes to satisfy more than a dozen disgruntled members — after repeatedly refusing to tweak the bill.
Several of the GOP holdouts with ethanol concerns signaled overnight they would flip their votes to yes given the changes, according to two people familiar with the discussions. And while it remains unclear if the wee-hour changes are enough to secure final passage on the floor, which Republicans are aiming for later Wednesday, McCarthy has regained momentum heading into a House GOP conference meeting that could help seal the fate of the bill.
Major portions of the Inflation Reduction Act signed into law last summer would be eliminated as well, including $1 billion to boost the adoption of building codes for energy-efficient construction, $5 billion for loans to back energy infrastructure projects, $1.9 billion in grants to improve transportation access to neighborhoods, $200 million for National Park System maintenance projects and $5 billion in grants for reducing climate pollution.
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