A last-minute White House meeting indicates that ABC News is between President Donald Trump, President Mike Johnson and the Républicains de la Chambre on Wednesday afternoon, while the “Big, beautiful Bill Act” seems to be basically and bad.
The critical meeting fixed at 3 p.m., which will include House Freedom Caucus, when the GOP leaders rush to hand over the bill on the right track after the negotiations went south with hard liners overnight. The GOP is far from being unified around the bill with several collage points among the Republican hard liners mainly concerning the work requirements of Medicaid and a ceiling on the tax deductions of the State and local.
Representative Andrew Clyde, representative Chip Roy, president of the Caucus of the Freedom Chamber, Andy Harris, and the representative Clay Higgins, speak to the press during the hearing of a House Rules Committee on the plan of the American president Donald Trump for in -depth tax reductions, in Capitol Hill, in Washington, on May 21, 2025.
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Sources of leadership in the House have told ABC News that Johnson is eager to put the Megabill on the ground on Wednesday evening to try to force the Holdouts to choose one side. But, hardliners are reluctant, committing to vote no and killing the momentum of the bill, which has changes to Medicaid, to local and local tax deductions, to SnAP food assistance, to immigration policy and more.
All eyes will be on Trump to see if he can move the needle and convince the held to change their positions. Wednesday’s meeting comes after talking to the Republicans at Capitol Hill on Tuesday in order to persuade them to support his signature bill – threatening at some point to priest those who vote against this.
Trump answered the shouted question of a journalist on the bill on Wednesday afternoon, saying that the bill was going “very well” and that they are “very close”.
Republican representative Ralph Norman, a holdout, said that “we do what the president wanted us to do”, but insisted that the bill was not yet “done” while negotiations are trying.
“We are trying to sit at the table,” said representative Chip Roy on Wednesday morning, another Holdout, to the journalists of the Capitol after another meeting with the president. “We are going to work with our colleagues, work with the White House, to continue to deliver what the president campaigned on and on which we all campaigned.”
The members of the ultra-conservative members of the Freedom Caucus caucus were journalists about their exact requests. Some want more steep cups in Medicaid while others push to eliminate the remaining subsidies of the law on the reduction of inflation.
“The fact is that it has massive savings in the first five years, and it has massive deficits from the first five years because we do not give up the structural reforms we are talking about,” said Roy. “No more. It’s now time for a transformative reform. We are going to work with the White House to deliver.”
Republican leaders of the Chamber stress that the legislation has exceeded its objectives for discounts of spending – the objectives that these hard liners voted just over a month ago in the budgetary plan – reducing more than $ 1.5 dollars of the federal budget.
The president of Freedom Caucus, Andy Harris, said that there was “no way” that “Big Beautiful Bill Act” goes to the House on Wednesday – despite Johnson’s objective to put the bill on the field as soon as Wednesday after having erased the rules committee. Johnson is still working to guarantee the votes of more than a dozen republicans who are looking for additional changes to the legislation. Enough opposition to defeat him because Johnson cannot afford to lose three votes.
“We are further from an agreement,” said Harris in Newsmax on Wednesday morning. “This bill has in fact worseing overnight. There is no way to pass today.”
Hearing of the rules of the Chamber’s rules will strong
The efforts of the House Republicans to pass the Trump bill continued while an audience of the House Rules Committee still takes place after starting at 1 hour on Wednesday. Committee presidents and members of the ranking continue to debate details of more than 1,000 pages “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”.
The president of the representative of the Chamber’s Rules Committee, Virginia Foxx, chairs a meeting of the Rules Committee on the only major law on the bill in the American Capitol, on May 20, 2025.
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Wednesday morning, key elements of the legislation should arise within the rules committee, which will focus on tax provisions, the overhaul of the Snap and Medicaid cuts. However, GOP leaders have still not published expected changes – negotiated by hard and moderate lines – to the tax and budgetary invoice. The President of the Rules Committee, Virginia Foxx, said that republican changes in the package will be revealed at some point at the hearing.
Representative Ralph Norman and representative Chip Roy attend the audience of a Chamber’s Rules Committee on the plan of the US President Donald Trump for in -depth tax reductions, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, on May 21, 2025.
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Representative Jim McGovern, the best democrat of the rules committee, the draft reconciliation of the disturbed republicans.
“I have a simple question. What are the Devil The Republicans so afraid? What are you so afraid that you were holding this audience at 1 pm. It’s a simple question that speaks at the heart of what’s going on here, and that I will continue to ask you, if the Republicans are so proud?” Said McGovern.
A program with the words “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” printed during an audience of a committee of the rules of the Chamber of the President Donald Trump for in -depth tax discounts, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, on May 21, 2025.
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On Wednesday morning, the Democratic leaders of the Chamber led by the leader of the minority Hakeem Jeffries postponed the bill by presenting an amendment – one of the more than 500 amendments submitted by Democrats and the Republicans to reconciliation – to bring all the provisions which, according to them, would bring millions of Americans to lose health and food aid.
“Unfortunately, we are here today to discuss a bill that would make this American dream more difficult to achieve millions by increasing costs for families, American families who work hard and stretching the things they need to survive and prosper,” said Jeffries, adding that the bill, if promulgated, would force nearly 14 million people.
The head of the minority of the Hakeem Jeffries room, the representative Katherine Clark and the representative Pete Aguilar attend an audience of the House Rules Committee on the plan of the US President Donald Trump for in -depth tax reductions, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, May 21, 2025.
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Jeffries described the megabill “One, Big Ugly Bill” who “will hurt the American people”.
Overnight, several Republican members left while the Democrats burned midnight oil – introducing various amendments to packaging.
President of the Mike Johnson House speaking to representative Joe Neguse and the representative Mary Gay Scanlon at a meeting of the Chamber’s Rules Committee on the Big Bill law at the American Capitol on May 21, 2025.
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The member of the Bennie Thompson ranking of Homeland Security expressed his frustration with regard to the process of day overnight.
“I described the part of the internal security of this bill as putting lipstick on a pig. I come from an agricultural district as well as from a part of the country. So let me use another agricultural analogy to end: we can be here outdoors, but you do not need the light of the day to feel here,” said Mississip, Mississip, Het to wash here, “said Mississip, he said that Mississip said, following what’s going to go” Puet. “
During the next day, several presidents of committees and classification members testified before the powerful panel, in particular the armed services, the budget, surveillance, natural resources, financial services, judicial power, internal security, transport, ways and means, energy and trade, agriculture and education.
