WASHINGTON – Northwest Republicans helped the House pass President Donald Trump’s signature tax-and-spending legislation on Thursday, as nearly all GOP lawmakers backed the massive bill even as many of them said they disliked parts of it.
Rep. Dan Newhouse of central Washington and Rep. Russ Fulcher, who represents North Idaho, were among the Republican holdouts who delayed a key procedural vote until the early hours of Thursday morning. But despite voicing concerns about the bill a day earlier, the congressmen joined all but two of their GOP colleagues to pass the bill in the afternoon, narrowly overcoming universal opposition from Democrats. Had just two more of the House’s 220 Republicans opposed the bill,…