GOP leaders launch their last-ditch megabill whip job

By Meredith Lee Hill, Nicholas Wu | 07/02/2025 01:26 PM EDT

President Donald Trump is meeting with several groups of House Republicans.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.).

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) at the Capitol on Wednesday. Francis Chung/POLITICO

With just hours until they want to start voting, House Republican leaders and White House officials have launched an all-hands-on-deck push Wednesday to get the GOP megabill through the House and to President Donald Trump’s desk.

Several groups of House Republican lawmakers who have aired grievances with the Senate-passed version of the domestic policy poll were meeting Wednesday morning, and Speaker Mike Johnson is making his way through those groups — including speaking with a particularly crucial group of conservative hard-liners.

Multiple groups of holdouts are also visiting the White House on Wednesday to meet with Trump, who has demanded the bill get done by Friday.

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Skeptical members across the GOP’s ideological spectrum said Wednesday they were still reviewing the 887-page bill passed by the Senate.

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