The legislation, a multi-trillion-dollar tax-and-spending overhaul, is the product of months of backroom dealing between House and Senate Republicans<\/strong>. If passed, it would represent the most significant domestic achievement of Trump\u2019s presidency to date. But GOP leaders now face resistance from both flanks of their party,\u00a0from hardline conservatives warning of fiscal betrayal, and moderates fearing political blowback over health care cuts.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re working through everybody\u2019s concerns and letting them know this is the best possible product we can produce,\u201d Johnson told reporters Wednesday morning, conceding that he does not yet have the votes to pass even the procedural rule required to begin debate on the bill.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udea8Speaker Johnson this morning acknowledges he doesn\u2019t have the votes to pass the rule yet \u2014<\/p>\n \u201cwe\u2019re working on all that right now\u201d he tells\u00a0@nicholaswu12<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cworking through everybody’s concerns and letting them know this is the best possible product we can produce.\u201d\u00a0https:\/\/t.co\/W4jOpQ2ldF<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Meredith Lee Hill (@meredithllee)\u00a0July 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The House is scheduled to reconvene at 9 a.m. today, with leadership aiming to move the legislation before the July 4 recess. But on Tuesday night, Johnson and his team were still scrambling. Members of the GOP whip team expressed alarm over the number of \u201cno\u201d votes on their tally sheets \u2014 including from lawmakers they had assumed were in support.<\/p>\n Two conservative members of the Rules Committee, Reps. Chip Roy of Texas and Ralph Norman of South Carolina, voted against advancing the bill Tuesday night<\/strong>, a warning sign of trouble ahead. A procedural vote, initially slated for Wednesday, may be delayed to Thursday due to both political uncertainty and widespread travel delays caused by thunderstorms snarling flights into Washington.<\/p>\n “We have fifty-one-and-a-half million foreign born people in this country,” Roy told\u00a0Punchbowl News<\/em><\/a>. “You clamp down on illegal immigration, which is what the president is doing, but you need to limit, slash and refocus legal immigration\u2026 legal immigration is part of the problem.”<\/p>\n Even Speaker Johnson admitted during a Fox News appearance Tuesday night that the vote might slip another day.<\/p>\n A cluster of House Freedom Caucus members are threatening to tank the bill, saying Johnson has abandoned the House\u2019s original budget framework, one that paired $2 trillion in spending cuts with $4.5 trillion in tax cuts<\/strong>. The Senate-passed version, they argue, compromises too much.<\/p>\n Roy\u00a0wrote on X<\/a>\u00a0Tuesady night;<\/p>\n FACT:\u00a0 The Senate OBBB increases deficits and violates the terms of the budget deal in the House.<\/em><\/p>\n FACT: The Senate OBBB guts the strong provisions to terminate the \u201cgreen new scam\u201d subsidies in the House bill.<\/em><\/p>\n FACT: The Senate OBBB removes key provisions we put in the bill to stop illegal aliens from getting Medicaid.<\/em><\/p>\n FACT: The Senate OBBB removes key provisions we put in the bill to stop taxpayer funding of transgender surgeries.<\/em><\/p>\n FACT: We can amend it, send it back, fix it, & pass both the tax cut extensions AND border provisions we all want to pass.<\/em><\/p>\n Happy to stay here every day until we get it right.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) said publicly that\u00a0the bill is unlikely to pass \u201cas is\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0and expressed agreement with Elon Musk, who labeled the proposal \u201cbad.\u201d Roy, meanwhile, raised alarm over the bill\u2019s deficit projections. Norman has signaled he will vote no on both the rule and the bill itself.<\/p>\n Adding to the drama is a pro-Trump super PAC now running attack ads against Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, a frequent critic of the bill. And Sen. Thom Tillis\u2019 (R-N.C.) unexpected retirement announcement \u2014 after opposing the Senate version \u2014 sent a ripple of caution through GOP ranks.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not just the right causing trouble for Johnson. Several moderates from swing districts are voicing concerns over the bill\u2019s Medicaid cuts and repeal of clean energy tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act.<\/p>\n Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, who represents a district Trump lost in 2020, is seen as a possible \u201cno\u201d vote due to Medicaid and energy concerns. Rep. David Valadao of California and Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska, both vulnerable members, are also being watched closely.\u00a0Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC), the only practicing physician in Congress, has demanded guarantees that the bill\u2019s $50 billion rural hospital fund will benefit struggling institutions like those in his district.\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cI actually still practice and take care of patients,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cThe district that I represent is one of the poorest in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n NC Rep. GREG MURPHY airing big concerns w\/ the reconciliation bill this morning:<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m having a hard time getting the point where I can support the Senate package\u201d<\/p>\n MURPHY says he needs \u201creal guarantees\u201d on how $50B rural hospital fund will be spent & that money will go to poor\u2026<\/p>\n \u2014 Laura Weiss (@LauraEWeiss16)\u00a0July 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Reps. Glenn Grothman and Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin have also raised alarms over the bill\u2019s impact on rural hospitals.<\/strong>\u00a0And several newly elected members, including Rob Bresnahan and Ryan Mackenzie of Pennsylvania, have raised similar concerns about Medicaid provisions.<\/p>\n With time running short, House Republican leaders, including Johnson, Majority Leader Steve Scalise, and Whip Tom Emmer, are leaning heavily on Trump\u2019s influence to lock in support.\u00a0The president is scheduled to meet privately today with key GOP factions<\/strong>, including members of the House Freedom Caucus, to try and close the deal,\u00a0Bloomberg<\/em>\u00a0reports. Johnson will remain at the Capitol holding separate meetings with undecided members.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/7225-AM-3-20250702-051310am_jpg_92.jpg?itok=wr7cVAjG\")
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Deepening Doubts, Tight Timeline<\/h2>\n
Hardliners Dig In<\/h2>\n
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Leadership Strategy: Trump at the Center<\/h2>\n