During the vote, Johnson huddled with Majority Leader Steve Scalise, House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) and multiple GOP holdouts just off the House floor in an effort to seal the deal.

Earlier in the morning, Johnson appeared alongside Senate Majority Leader John Thune to project unity, and reiterate a promise to reduce the deficit by at least $1.5 trillion in the overall package of Trump tax cuts, beefed up border security, energy policies and more, Politico reports.

The budget measure passed 216-214, and paves the way for a follow-on package to cut taxes by up to $5.3 trillion over a decade, and raise the debt ceiling by $5 trillion, in exchange for deep spending cuts. GOP Reps. Thomas Massie (KY) and Victoria Spartz (IN) joined Democrats in voting against it.

The holdouts in the House - around 20 budget hawks and members of the House Freedom Caucus, remained staunchly against the Senate-amended budget resolution until the Senate was willing to guarantee that they would reduce spending levels by the House's $1.5 trillion over 10 years vs. the paltry $4 billion in cuts the Senate had originally proposed.

"Our ambition in the Senate is we are aligned with the House in terms of what their budget resolution outlined in terms of savings," Thune said Thursday. "The speaker has talked about $1.5 trillion, we have a lot of United States senators who believe that is a minimum. We're certainly going to do everything we can to be as aggressive as possible to see that we are serious about the matter."

House Speaker Mike Johnson announced Thursday morning that they "believe they have the votes" to pass a budget resolution and plan to move forward later in the morning with a vote in the House, as House Republicans have been trying to get a budget blueprint for President Trump's agenda over the finish line, CBS News reports.

Negotiations had continued into Wednesday night, as Johnson and the White House struggled to convince GOP holdouts who wanted deeper spending cuts. The lower chamber was set to vote Wednesday evening on the budget resolution but punted after several House conservatives resisted increasing pressure from Mr. Trump to accept the blueprint that would open the door to implementing his border security, defense, energy priorities and extending expiring tax cuts. ?

"I'm happy to tell you that this morning, I believe we have the votes to finally adopt the budget resolution so we can move forward on President Trump's very important agenda for the American people," Johnson told reporters Thursday morning on Capitol Hill. ?

Johnson called the budget a "big beautiful bill," mirroring Mr. Trump's language. The speaker said they're looking for $1.5 trillion in savings, at a minimum.?

"Our aim is to deliver on our promises in this big beautiful bill regarding things like border security, restoring peace through strength and American energy dominance, and regulatory reform to get the economy really humming again. And of course also, tax relief, tax reductions. We have to make the tax cuts permanent. And that's all involved and enveloped in this big effort."