This is a time that is amazed at home, where the next 48 hours will test the leadership of the speaker Mike Johnson is not like before when he scrambled to secure the voices needed to pass Megabil which aims to advance the legislative agenda of President Donald Trump.
And now the President will attend the GOP House conference at Capitol Hill Tuesday morning, several White House officials are confirmed to ABC News – Efforts to influence detention.
After the Sunday night voting to send “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” to the DPR Regulation Committee, now there are two full days of intervention for Johnson to give a final touch to the Republican Reconciliation and Support Bill. And the pressure is on.
Johnson has no current voice, given the public concern of conservative and moderate. He could only lose three members of the Republican party, so the change in the billing text was certainty.
The speaker on Monday expressed his belief in the DPR Consensus Development Operation when MPs made modifications to the bill.
“This is a bottom-up process-that is what everyone wants so that we have sent us almost,” he said. “I am very optimistic that we will find the right balance point to get this bill.”
Johnson’s efforts to unite the conference behind the bill were the main test of his conversation, and his ability to give to Trump, which also encouraged Republicans to support him.
Johnson worked over the weekend to influence Holdduts Republican in the DPR Regulation Committee to prevent the law from moving from the committee as they had on Friday. Hard-Liners chose prizes on Sunday night to allow the bill to advance, but still did not offer full support for the bill.
Speaker Mike Johnson spoke to reporters when he left the house in the US capitol, May 15, 2025 in Washington.
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Previously Monday, the Press Secretary of the White House Karoline Leavitt said Trump “was willing to pick up the telephone” to encourage Republicans to be in line with the bill – but the meeting on Tuesday morning with all Republican conferences was a stronger message for those on the fence.
Now, the rules committee is preparing a hearing at 1 o’clock in the morning Wednesday morning – and the meeting will set parameters for the floor debate. Meanwhile, negotiations in the speaker’s office will reach a fever field on Monday and Tuesday because the Republican Party is wrestling with sticky points – especially regarding Medicaid’s work requirements and the limitations of state and local tax reduction.
“There is no final to the final,” a Senior House Republican leadership aide told reporters at a briefing on Monday morning. “This is a fragile process.”
Johnson on Monday underestimated the concern that the GOP came down in the last minute change in the law in the final stage in this process.
“We have some problems to be resolved – and we work with all parties to do that – and I’m sure we will do it,” Johnson explained.
Why meet 1 o’clock in the morning on Wednesday? Chairperson of the DPR Virginia Foxx laughed softly when he walked past the Capitol Monday morning – told ABC News that time had to comply with the DPR regulations after the DPR budget committee chose Sunday night to advance the bill.
So what are the rules?
“Under regulations, the budget DEMS gets two calendar days to submit a minority display afterwards [Sunday] Markup Night, “Aide Democrat explained.” The rules then have a one -hour notification requirement, therefore [the hearing] Starting at 1 am “
Awan rolled over the US capitol in Washington, May 18, 2025.
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If the rules committee reports a profitable reconciliation package to the floor, it will make Johnson’s plans according to the schedule to hold a vote on Thursday – even though he has threatened to hold a house in this weekend session if there is a hiccup along the road.
Johnson pointed his gaze to send a package to Trump for his signature to the Fourth of July with the “July Time” deadline “to overcome the debt limit to avoid the default.
When negotiations continue behind the closed door, the Republican assistant stressed that “95% of the bill was carried out” while they scrambled to lock support. The round of change is anticipated to overcome the technical modification of the Senate Parliamentary insistence, which rubs the text of the bill and signaling some legislative languages may be fatal to the rights of reconciliation in the senate.
“Everything is on the table,” said a senior GOP aide, emphasizing the fluidity of the overall discussion.
House Republicans are still weighing the potential changes on the implementation date for the Medicaid work requirements, balanced what is “feasible” for the state to be applied to Republican anxiety whose patience does not extend until 2029, outside President Trump, as currently written in the bill.
“We want to make sure that what we want to do actually matches the ability to implement,” said a senior aide of the Republic. “So, the date is definitely difficult to say at this stage because I think we are still doing it.”
In Salt, the aide said the resolution “had not yet been decided”-explained that members had just returned to the city after the weekend of three days and the speaker continued to work through it.
On Monday discussed the concerns of several Republican Holdouts revealed about the Bill that added to the swollen national deficit, saying flatly that “this bill does not add a deficit.”
Republicans insist that they will reach at least $ 1.5 trillion of savings with the bill while also reflecting Trump’s agenda – referring to the Congress Budget Office letter confirmed that all 11 committees meet their reconciliation instructions.
“This is a job for a year to find out what the priorities you want to instill. We started this for a long time and worked for it,” an aide emphasized. “We will do all the changes we need to make here, and then we will see where the numbers will definitely vibrate. But the point is we have a framework set in the budget and we will get it.”
And when the hours beat, Johnson had refused a question about the time of the crisis that gave him “heartburn.”
“No, I don’t have heartburn, because I know we will finish this work,” Johnson said.
ABC News’ Arthur Jones II, Rachel Scott, Katherine Faulders, Lauren Peller and Michelle Stoddart contributed to this report.