The House adopted a rule for floor debate on the debt ceiling and spending curbs package after Democrats flooded in to keep the measure on track at the last minute.
The rule vote sets up the bill to pass Wednesday night as Congress faces a June 5 deadline to lift the nation’s $31.4 trillion borrowing cap. Republican leaders ultimately lost 29 of their members on the procedural vote and the rule looked set to go down as the gavel was about to fall.
At that moment, Democrats started to cast their votes in favor and in some cases, flipping from a “no” to a “yes”. In the end, 52 Democrats voted for the rule and it was adopted on a 241-187 vote — much more lopsided than it seemed it would be just minutes earlier.
