First, they caved on the speaker election. Then last month, they fell in line on a budget vote and again on a divisive government funding bill. But now, it seems, House conservatives are ready to make a stand.
Speaker Mike Johnson is staring down the most significant internal revolt he’s faced all year — one that threatens his own plans to advance the Republican legislative agenda and one that even President Donald Trump has been so far unable to squelch.
Dozens of House Republicans are undecided or outright opposed to rubber-stamping a Senate-approved budget blueprint for the GOP’s domestic policy megabill, and an all-out whip effort from Johnson and his leadership team — including a private meeting between Trump and key holdouts — has only produced modest gains.
If Johnson and Trump can’t flip most of them in the next 48 hours, lawmakers will start to board flights for a two-week recess, denying the president a show of legislative progress as financial markets wobble over his tariffs.
