The House convenes at 11 PM ET Friday morning in a pro forma session in which everyone hopes the $19.1 billion disaster relief bill the Senate passed Thursday will pass unanimously. The bill provides funding for the states and Puerto Rico devastated by wildfires, hurricanes, and flooding. It also requires that the administration pay out money appropriated last year for Puerto Rico and Texas that through malign neglect by the administration still hasn't dispersed. Donald Trump had been insisting that any disaster bill had to include money for the border and couldn't include any funding for Puerto Rico.
For whatever reason he relented and Democrats claimed victory. "We can all finally breathe a sigh of relief despite the president saying yesterday he can't work on bipartisan bills," Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said. "The main point here is that we insisted that Puerto Rico get the aid it needed along with the rest of America and it is. The second point being that the president interfered twice and slowed it down but couldn't."
Republicans gave all the credit to their great leaders, who's been holding this up since January when the House passed the first attempt at disaster relief. But he'll have another chance to change his mind. While the bill could pass in the House Friday morning, one member could stop it by objecting, and Politico reports that "Republicans are expected to reject a unanimous consent request, forcing the House to wait until June to pass the Senate bill." A ten-day recess for Memorial Day starts Friday.
In the next two weeks, anything could happen with Trump and the whole deal could fall apart again, which is probably what those House Republicans are hoping for.