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Good morning, everyone. I'm Playbook deputy editor Zach Stanton. It's Wednesday, February 26th, and here's what's driving the day.

In a whiplash-inducing turn of events last night, House Republicans initially postponed a vote on their one-bill budget framework because they didn't have the support lined up. And then, in a matter of minutes, reversed course, called a vote, and passed the framework for

President Trump's sweeping domestic policy agenda along party lines. How did that happen and where

do things go from here? Well, here to chat with me about all of that is Politico-Congress

reporter Nicholas Wu. Good morning, Nick.

Good morning, Zach. So walk us through what we saw leading up to last night's vote. What happened?

How did this turnabout come into being? So what we saw last night was a really remarkable turn of events.

The House budget resolution came up for a vote,

and as it looked like it was going to come up for a vote, House Republican leaders seemed

like they didn't have the votes. You had four Republican lawmakers who all day had been publicly

voicing some level of opposition, and it seemed like they weren't budging. So Republican leaders

said that they were done with

the votes for the night. Then as lawmakers are leaving the building, they all got text,

emails, calls, telling them to come back inside. Because as it turned out, the vote was back on.

And so through, you know, cajoling, through calls from President Trump, through lots of conversations with Republican leaders all day,

three out of the four holdouts eventually flipped their votes and ended up supporting the budget

resolution. And that ended up being enough to get it over the finish line. There were other

surprises along the way, too. There were several Democratic members of Congress who were

thought originally that they were going to be absent because of various health issues.

But in a particularly dramatic turn of events, we saw Congressman Kevin Mullen of California.

I recently had complications from knee surgery go onto the House floor and a walker to vote against it.

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