Washington – President Trump met the Républicains of the House on Tuesday as managers Try to push a Massive budget containing the president's legislative priorities on his last obstacle before being able to go to the floor.
The president put pressure on the limbs to queue as The party's duel factions have threatened to upset the plan as they set apparent red lines that do not line up with the requests made from other members. When he arrived in Capitol Hill, Mr. Trump suggested that any republican who does not support what he calls the “big and beautiful bill” would be “knocked out so quickly”, citing a handful of “swamps”.
“It is the biggest bill ever adopted, and we have to do it,” said Trump.
The president of the Mike Johnson room, a republican of Louisiana, can only afford three defections during a ground vote, if all the members are present and vote, given his thin majority. All Democrats should oppose it.
“I would say that if the vote was currently taking place, he dies a painful death,” said Republican representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee, who said he would vote “no” on the package in his current form.
But before a ground vote, the legislation will have to browse the rules committee, the last judgment of most of the laws before the full chamber Voting on a measurement. The committee began to meet shortly after 1 a.m. on Wednesday.
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In a promising sign, the republican representative Ralph Norman from South Carolina, one of the conservative holdings that blocked the invoice in the budget committee, said he Let him move forward Outside the rules committee, where he is also a member.
“I'm not going to kill him in the rules,” Norman told journalists on Monday evening. “He must go to the ground.”
When asked after the meeting with Trump on Tuesday if he would support the House floor bill, Norman said “we will see”.
The rare rare meeting of the committee at the end of the evening comes when the republican leadership races to adopt the budget package before their Memorial Day Auto-imposed deadline.
Johnson has encountered the various factions in recent days to hear requests and build a consensus around a modified version of the legislation produced by nearly a dozen committees in the chamber.
The Conservatives, who are thwarted by the fact that the bill does not make enough expense reductions enough reduced to considerably reduce the deficit, put pressure for Medicaid to have work requirements to enter much earlier than 2029. They also want to eliminate all the subsidies with clean energy which have been implemented under the law on the reduction of inflation, which has been promulgated by Former President Joe Biden.
“Unfortunately, it is responsible for deficits and back in economies, which I don't like,” the Republican representative Chip Roy of Texas said on Monday, another conservative holdout. “None of my votes is guaranteed at this stage.”
The non -supporter committee of a responsible federal budget estimated that the original version of the bill would add 3.3 billions of dollars to the deficit in the next decade.
The conservatives also pushed to modify the rate by which the federal government pays the MEDICAID states, a point of discord with moderates, which warned against the greater reductions of the program.
Johnson reiterated on Monday that the change has been “out of the table for some time”. And Mr. Trump said before the meeting on Tuesday morning that “we do nothing that cuts significant”, adding this to Medicaid “, the only thing we delete is waste, fraud and abuses”.
A provision on the state and the local tax deduction, known as the SAL, is faced with a group of republicans of the Blue States, who threatened to hold their votes unless their requests are satisfied.
The GOP representative, Mike Lawler of New York, underlined before the meeting that the group of moderates did not intend to engrave. And on his message to the Conservatives, Lawler told journalists: “If they think we are going to throw our voters under the bus to appease them, this does not happen.”
“The fact is that we would not even be in this position at the moment if you did not have members in seats like mine that won,” said Lawler.
Trump also weighed on the issue of salt, suggesting that he is opposed to increasing the ceiling because he said that state Democratic governors like New York, Illinois and California would benefit, describing them as “larger” beneficiaries.
According to a senior White House official, Trump said at the GOP conference in the Chamber at the meeting that they should not leave the division on the salt ceiling hindering the bill, and said that they should not touch Medicaid, except to respond to waste, fraud and abuse, as well as the reduction of services for non-citizens and the imposition of work requirements. The manager said Trump also clearly said that he wanted each Republican to vote “yes” on the bill, while saying that he was losing patience with the remaining remains.
Johnson said at a press conference following the meeting that leadership will now strive to “bring together the small subgroups of the House Republican Conference and to link the remaining loose extremities”.
“We are going to do it,” added the speaker.
Representative Dusty Johnson, a Southern Dakota Republican, said Trump was “categorical, we have to stop screwing” on the budget package. He said that 98% of the conference is “ready to leave” and was “inflated” by the president, while noting that “he moved” him.
“I do not yet know that we are still there, but it was an extremely impactful meeting,” said Johnson.
When the meeting let out after almost two hours on Tuesday, Trump told journalists “that it was a love meeting”.
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