Under normal circumstances, I think the House would just go back and re-pass the bill. Since this was such a fight the first time through, that might not work a second time.
I'm going to be watching SCOTUS on this one pretty closely. It should be the first real test of the new appointees' loyalty to the administration, and I don't think that there are many people that will argue that the Republicans are in the wrong here. It may be a minor, semantic "wrong", but it's there nonetheless.
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