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Hello everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America show, Midday Update for Thursday,

April 10th.

Happy Thursday, folks. A big, beautiful thing happening on Capitol Hill just moments ago.

House Republicans narrowly approving their budget framework this afternoon, a political turnaround

after Speaker Mike Johnson worked into the night to satisfy those GOP, we'll call them rhinos to be nice, holdouts who

had refused to advance trillions of dollars in tax breaks without deeper spending cuts.

Speaker Johnson stood with Senate Majority Leader John Thune earlier this morning at the Capitol

and said President Trump's big beautiful bill, which seeks as much as a trillion and a half

in cuts to federal spending

and programs, was on track. The speaker had abruptly halted voting Wednesday night, saying,

quote, I believe we have the votes. We take a big next step coming tomorrow. Thune also tried to

assure House Conservatives that the GOP senators are aligned with their pursuit of spending reductions.

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