President Donald Trump's signature taxation and spending bill is connected the verge of suffering a important blow, arsenic House Republican leaders look incapable to unafraid capable votes wrong their ain enactment to determination the monolithic bundle to a last ballot connected the floor.
Five Republican noes person been cast, capable to vessel the measure unless 2 of them flip to a yes. The members who person voted nary span the ideological spectrum, from hardline conservatives to a mean from Pennsylvania.
A ballot to o.k. the rules of statement got underway Wednesday soon earlier 10 p.m. ET. Unless these rules are approved, the enclosure cannot statesman the statement required up of a last ballot connected legislation.
The occupation House Republicans find themselves successful is not a full surprise. Numerous rank-and-file members person dug successful connected their absorption to the tax-and-spending bundle passim the day, casting doubts astir conscionable however overmuch unit Speaker Mike Johnson tin exert connected them to backmost the bill.
Both moderates and blimpish hardliners are demanding changes to a Senate mentation of the bill.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaks to the press, arsenic Republican lawmakers conflict to walk U.S. President Donald Trump's sweeping spending and taxation bill, connected Capitol Hill, successful Washington, D.C., U.S., July 2, 2025.
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Earlier successful the time Wednesday, a cardinal measurement successful helping skeptical Republicans get to yes was nonstop involution by Trump himself.
The White House hosted respective groups of House Republicans for talks, including moderates and hardliners who opposed the measure successful its revised form.
Trump besides deployed a squad to Capitol Hill that included Russ Vought, manager of the White House Office of Management and Budget, to conscionable with holdouts.
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While blimpish holdouts to Trump's monolithic measure person drawn the astir media attention, determination is besides a radical of mean Republicans who person large problems with cuts to Medicaid.
The Senate measure made adjacent deeper cuts to the wellness security programme than the ones primitively passed by the House.
These mean Republicans correspond districts that are typically carried by Democrats successful statesmanlike elections. This gives the White House less leverage points implicit them than Trump mightiness person for a subordinate whose constituents voted Republican.
The Senate squeaked retired passage of its mentation of Trump's megabill connected Tuesday, with Vice President JD Vance required to travel successful and formed the tie-breaking vote. Lawmakers successful the little enclosure indispensable o.k. the Senate's revisions earlier the measure tin spell to Trump's table to beryllium signed into law.
When the House voted connected its ain mentation of the measure successful May, Johnson was astatine slightest capable to connection last-minute concessions to the skeptical members successful his league to get them connected board.
Now, immoderate past infinitesimal changes would automatically nonstop the measure backmost to the Senate for different vote, which would marque the self-imposed July 4 deadline astir intolerable to reach.
— CNBC's Greta Reich contributed reporting
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