House Republicans are taking up legislation that violates the budget framework they painstakingly negotiated in the spring. It’s not the end of the world for the megabill.
That’s because the majority almost always rules in the House, and lawmakers there are free to renege on prior agreements if they have the votes.
That likely means it’s curtains for the agreement brokered this spring by fiscal hawks, led by Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-Pa.), who insisted on a mechanism tying the amount of tax cuts in the GOP megabill to the total amount of spending cuts.
But the sprawling domestic policy legislation that Senate Republicans sent to the House violates…
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