Speaker Mike Johnson and President Donald Trump are digging in to pass Republicans’ massive tax and safety-net reform bill by Friday in time for a July 4 celebration.
The biggest hurdle in their way right now: dozens of House Republican holdouts who are wary the bill doesn’t deliver on key promises they’ve made to their constituents.
From fiscal hawks to vulnerable centrists worried about the Senate’s steeper Medicaid cuts, a substantial cross-section of the House GOP conference would rather take the time to amend the package and send it back to the Senate.
Head GOP rebel Chip Roy of Texas said Tuesday the chances of passing a bill out of the House by that deadline are “a hell of a lot lower than they were even 48 hours ago” based on what he saw of the Senate bill.
