A band of House conservative hard-liners is threatening to defeat a procedural vote on the Republican megabill and demands further negotiations over President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”
Rep. Andy Harris, chair of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus, said he was opposed to the Senate-passed version of the GOP megabill and called on Trump to order senators back to town for further negotiations.
Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.), another Freedom Caucus member, said he planned to vote against the “rule” setting up final floor consideration of the bill and “start discussions where we can get back into” a fiscal framework hard-liners had negotiated with Speaker Mike Johnson.
Harris and Johnson spoke on the floor Wednesday as a preliminary vote was held open with more than a dozen GOP members not voting. With full attendance and Democrats uniformly opposed to the megabill, it takes only four GOP defections to tank the effort.
