'Pull a fast one': House lawmaker accuses GOP of switcheroo to trick Dems out of voting

Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) tore into House GOP leadership on Tuesday evening, accusing them of shady tactics to try to trick Democratic lawmakers into missing a key vote to start the procedure to make hundreds of billions in Medicaid cuts.

"Republicans tried to pull a fast one," wrote Frost. "They called off the budget vote that cuts healthcare for over 38 million children and just put it back up after everyone left to try and make some Democrats miss the vote."

"Many Dems are voting by card. I just did mine," he added.

House Republicans initially pulled the vote on their budget bill, which directed lawmakers to find massive cuts in key social services like Medicaid and SNAP, after failing to immediately wrangle the votes on the GOP side, with all Democrats united against. However, after pulling it, GOP leadership unexpectedly called another vote on it at the last minute, forcing everyone to scramble back.

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Ultimately, the GOP didn't need Democrats' absence to pass the measure, as three Republican lawmakers who initially planned to vote down the budget resolution flipped their votes to yes.

Frost, an outspoken progressive and one of the youngest members of Congress was involved in a separate scuffle earlier in the day when, after referring to "Grifter-in-Chief Trump and President Musk" during a House Oversight Committee hearing, Republican lawmakers shouted him down and Chairman James Comer (R-KY) threatened to have him ejected from the hearing by the sergeant-at-arms.