With proxy voting settled, GOP House resumes floor voting, Trump budget resolution top priority

Members of the GOP-led House returned to Capitol Hill on Monday to resume a busy legislative session derailed last week over a standoff on proxy voting – with the passage of President Trump's budget resolution a top priority.

The measure to allow proxy voting blocked floor votes until it was resolved. 

House Speaker Mike Johnson and Florida GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna came to an agreement on Sunday on such voting for new parents, ending the standoff and allowing floor votes to resume.

On Saturday, the GOP-led Senate passed its budget resolution, which will be critical to advancing President Trump’s legislative agenda, then sent it to the House.

Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, reportedly plans to vote on the Senate blueprint resolution as early as Wednesday.

But whether he will have enough votes for its passage as of Monday was unclear, considering he has only a seven-vote majority in the chamber and at least one member of his conference is already complaining about not being able to first make changes. 

“This is offensive, and so I’m a hard no on this junk,” Rep. Andy Ogles, a Tennessee Republican, reportedly said about the Senate’s budget resolution.

Other bills on which the House is expected to vote as early as Monday include the election-integrity-related SAVE Act and one to overturn Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rules.  

The dispute over proxy voting was resolved when Luna and Johnson, who argued the process was unconstitutional, agreed to a procedure dating back to the 1880s in which a member who cannot be on Capitol Hill because of an emergency pairs with a fellow House member who is voting the opposite on a measure – canceling out each other's votes.  

Trump appeared to facilitate a compromise when he said over the weekend he supported the proxy-voting plan that Luna publicly led.