House Republican leadership is facing a herculean task right now, as it seeks to appease various factions with strong opinions on the budget reconciliation bill: fiscal hawks, Medicaid defenders, and tax cut advocates.
Pleasing all of those groups would be an Olympian achievement, given Republicans’ narrow majority in the House of Representatives.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., is currently trying to iron out disagreements within the House Republican Party over taxation, Medicaid reform, and the general fiscal benefit of his “one big, beautiful” budget bill.
This bill would fulfill a number of President Donald Trump’s campaign promises, such as funding border security and extending his first term 2017 tax cuts.
House leadership suggested that they were coming close to consensus in the chamber at their Wednesday press conference.
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