The House is in a holding pattern as GOP leaders lean on Republican holdouts to allow President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” to advance.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Trump have spent much of the day trying to win over deficit hawks in the House Freedom Caucus and beyond who are threatening to block the bill and grind floor action to a halt.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said the large group of deficit hawks who had been huddling off the House floor are working to understand some Senate changes, how they would be implemented, what kind of executive actions the Trump administration can take, and the possibility of sending any tweaks back to the Senate.
Progress was made in the early evening, as one “no” has flipped to a “yes,” Ohio Republican Rep. Warren Davidson.
Yet a five-minute procedural vote has remained open for hours; after an hour. Following that vote, the rule is slated to come up for a vote.
Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.), the chair of the Freedom Caucus, has said Johnson doesn’t have the votes to advance the bill.
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