The budget framework, which was adopted with a narrow majority, 217 against 215, includes tax cuts of 4.5 billion dollars and expenditure reductions of 2 billion.
The Republicans have a narrow majority in the House of Representatives and it was unclear before the vote whether the Republican Speaker Mike Johnson would be able to get the more hesitant party colleagues on board with the decision.
However, several Republican members received calls from Trump himself before the vote, which ended with only one Republican defying the President. All Democrats voted, not unexpectedly, against.
Now, weeks of committee inquiries await before a more detailed proposal is sent to the Republican-led Senate. One of the key issues, which has also worried some Republican members, concerns possible cuts in public healthcare insurance.
Several other significant votes are pending in the House of Representatives in the near future, including one on the financing of the state apparatus, which expires on March 14.
