A last -minute White House meeting between President Donald Trump, President Mike Johnson and the Republican House of the House of Representatives on Wednesday afternoon occur when the “Big and Beautiful Invoice Act” seems to be in big, bad problems.
The critical meeting, which includes the Caucus of the Freedom of the Chamber, occurs when the leaders of the Republican party are fighting to re -route the bill after the negotiations went to the south with hard funds during the night. The Republican Party is far from unifying around the bill with various conflict points between the Republican hard funds mainly with respect to Medicaid’s work requirements and a limit of state and local tax deductions.
The representative Andrew Clyde, the representative Chip Roy, the president of the Caucus of the House of the House, Andy Harris, and the representative Clay Higgins speak with the press during the hearing of the Chamber of Rules Committee on the plan of the president of the United States, Donald Trump for extensive tax cuts, in Capitol Hill, in Washington, on May 21, 2025.
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On his way to the high -risk meeting at the White House, Johnson said that the Megabill is “moving forward” and is “optimistic” that will happen at the end of this week.
Chamber leadership sources tell ABC News that Johnson is anxious to put the Megabill on the floor on Wednesday night to try to force Holdouts to choose a team. But, hard phrases are swinging, committing to vote not and kill the impulse of the bill, which has changes in Medicaid, state and local tax deductions, rapid food assistance, immigration policy and more.
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When asked why hard phrases are not listening repeated pleas of Trump and Johnson to support this legislation, Johnson said “they are.”
“There is a lot of listening and much discussion. It has been very productive. The boys who still have worries, we are working,” he said.
The president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, talks to the press, while he leaves for a meeting at the White House on the budget in Washington, on May 21, 2025.
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Even so, the inactivated have criticized the bill on concerns that will increase to the national deficit.
All eyes will be in Trump to see if you can move the needle and convince retreats to change your positions. Wednesday’s meeting occurs a day after he spoke with the Republicans in Capitol Hill in an effort to persuade them to support their signing bill, at a time threatening with primar those who vote against.
The White House Administration and Budget Office He released a letter On Wednesday afternoon asking for the approval of the bill, saying that it would not approve it “would be the best betrayal.”
“The House of Representatives must immediately approve this bill to show the US people to take seriously the” promises, the promises maintained, “said the letter.
“President Trump undertakes to maintain his promise, and the lack of approval of this bill would be the best betrayal,” the letter added.
Republican representative Ralph Norman, a holder, said that “we are doing what the president wants us to do”, but insisted that the bill is not yet “done” as negotiations progress.
“We are trying to sit at the table,” said representative Chip Roy, another holdout, to journalists on Wednesday morning at the Capitol after another meeting with the speaker. “We are going to work with our colleagues, work with the White House, continue delivering what the president campaigned and what we all campaigned.”
The members of the members of the Caucus of the Freedom Freedom ultraconservative were cautious with the journalists about their exact requests. Some want more steep cuts to Medicaid, while others press to eliminate the remaining subsidies of the inflation reduction law.
“The fact is that this has massive savings in the first five years, and has massive deficits of the first five years because we are not addressing the structural reforms we are talking about here,” Roy said. “No more. Now is the moment of transformative reform. We will work with the White House to deliver.”
The republican leadership of the Chamber indicates that the legislation has exceeded its objectives for the expense cuts (objectives that these hard lines voted just over a month ago in the budget plan, reducing more than $ 1.5 billion from the federal budget.
The president of Freedom Caucus, Andy Harris, said that “there is no form of” that the “law of a Big Big Beautiful” passes in the Chamber on Wednesday, despite Johnson’s goal to put the bill on the floor as soon as Wednesday after the Chamber Rules Committee cleared. Johnson is still working to ensure the votes of the more than a dozen Republicans who seek additional changes in the legislation. Without changes, there is enough opposition to defeat it, since Johnson can only afford to lose three republican votes.
“We are further from an agreement,” Harris said in Newsmax on Wednesday morning. “This bill actually got worse during the night. There is no way to happen today.”
Meanwhile, a hearing in the Chamber Rules Committee on the Draft Law of the Republican Party remains strong after it began at 1 in Wednesday morning with Committee Presidents and classification members who discuss the details of the more than 1,000 pages “a great act of Big Beautiful Bill”.
President of the Rules Rules Committee, Virginia Foxx, presides over a meeting of the rules committee on the great law of Barn Bill in the United States Capitol, May 20, 2025.
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Representative Ralph Norman and representative Chip Roy attend the hearing of a Chamber Rules Committee on the United States President Donald Trump’s plan, for extensive tax cuts, in Capitol Hill, in Washington, on May 21, 2025.
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The leaders of the Republican party have not yet published the expected changes, negotiated by hard and moderate lines, to the Tax and Budget Invoice. The representative of the Rules Committee, Virginia Foxx, said that the republican changes in the package will be presented at some point during the hearing.
Representative Jim McGovern, the main Democrat in the Rules Committee, criticized the Re republican’s reconciliation bill.
“I have a simple question. What the hell are so afraid of the Republicans? What the hell are so afraid that you are celebrating this audition at 1 in the morning? It is a simple question that speaks to the heart of what is happening here, and one that I will continue asking, if the Republicans are so proud of what is in this bill, then, why are you trying to cry at night?” McGovern said.
