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- What happens if there's a tie vote in the House?</p>
<p>Kaia HubbardJuly 3, 2025 at 4:33 AM</p>
<p>The House began voting July 2, 2025, on whether to open debate for a sprawling Trump-backed domestic spending bill, but some GOP holdouts could endanger its passage. With such close margins, a tie vote is possible — here's a look back at what happens when the House ties.</p>
<p>An unusual scene occurred on the House floor in February 2024 as the chamber's vote tally came to a tie at 215 to 215 when three House Republicans joined Democrats to oppose an effort to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.</p>
<p>Although the impasse was quickly resolved, as a fourth House Republican changed his vote to oppose the bill in a procedural move that allows leadership to bring the legislation up again at a later date, it brought forward an issue that could come up again with a razor-thin Republican majority in the lower chamber — what happens if there's a tie vote in the House?</p>
<p>A view of US Capitol building in Washington D.C., United States on February 06, 2024. / Credit: Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu via Getty Images</p>
<p>What a tie vote means in the House</p>
<p>According to House rules, in the case of a tie vote, a question before the chamber "shall be lost." In the lower chamber, where Republicans hold just a slim majority and often see a handful of defections among their conference, there's no tie-breaker. Unlike in the Senate, where a tie-breaking vote may be cast, no one is brought in to resolve the issue.</p>
<p>Breaking a tie vote in the Senate</p>
<p>In the upper chamber, which sees tie votes with more regularity, the Vice President is called upon to cast tie-breaking votes. In recent years, with a narrow Democratic majority in the Senate, Vice President Kamala Harris has on more than 30 occasions cast a tie-breaking vote, breaking the record set almost 200 years ago.</p>
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