President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning the heat appeared in the house, the republican votes of the votes that endanger the approval of the Megabill destined to advance in his legislative agenda, sources told ABC News.
Trump spoke with the conference while more than a dozen Republicans seek additional changes in the legislation. Without changes, there is enough opposition to defeat it, since President Mike Johnson can only afford to lose three votes.
Johnson said Tuesday afternoon that he is “very sure” that he can turn the votes of the Republican party.
“We have a series of loose ends to tie, but they join well,” Johnson told journalists. “We have a few hours ahead to solve this, and I am very sure we will.”
President Donald Trump and the president of the Mike Johnson Chamber talk to the press after a meeting of the Republican party conference at the United States Capitol in Washington, on May 20, 2025.
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Previously, Trump used an improper to urge the members of the Chamber’s Republican Conference not to mess with Medicaid and vote in favor of his bill on Tuesday morning, sources told ABC News.
This demand occurs when the hard lines boost the strictest cuts of Medicaid only one day or so before the massive bill, full of a list of Trump campaign promises, is expected to be directed to the floor. Johnson points to a vote on Wednesday.
Another point of conflict between Republican holders is a limit of state and local fiscal deductions. And the sources tell ABC News that Trump told the Republican picture that promoted a higher limit in state and local fiscal deduction (PALT) to bring the current agreement on the table and “move on.”
Trump urged Republicans to stay together and do the bill, and deliver to the American people, according to a White House official.
A White House official told ABC News that Trump is losing patience with the Republican holders, including the Salt Caucus and the Caucus of the Freedom of the Chamber. The president made it clear that he wants all Republicans to vote yes about the bill, the official added.
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When leaving the meeting of the Chamber Republican Party Conference, Trump said the meeting was fine, but that he withdrew the reports that he is losing patience with Republican retreats.
“I think it was really great; that was a love meeting. Let me tell you that it was love in that room. There were no screams. I think it was a love meeting,” Trump told journalists, then added that anyone who said he was losing patience was “a liar.”
Projecting trust, Trump said “we are going to do it,” and added that “we are earlier.”
So, was the Trump pressure campaign enough to transfer them to the fence to the column yes?
When asked if he believed that Trump moved a vote, Holdout Andy Biggs representative R-Arizing. He said “yes, I guess yes.” Even so, Biggs did not promise to support the bill.
Holdout Ralph Norman representative, RS.C., said Trump “did a great job”, but refused to say if Trump changed his mind.
President Donald Trump and the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, talk to members of the media before a meeting of the Republican Conference of the House of Representatives in Capitol Hill in Washington, on May 20, 2025
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“If the vote was held at this time, a painful death dies,” said Representative Andy Ogles, Tenn Republican. He told reporters on Tuesday afternoon.
Other hard lines tell ABC News that they still believe that changes in the bill, such as those additional medicaid cuts, could still be on the table. Representative Tim Burchett, R-Ten.
But time is running out and Trump was clear that he doesn’t want more delays.
Cleaning the camera is just the first obstacle to the bill: you will also have to approve a meeting with a republican Senate conference that is already telegraphing that they plan to make changes.
After Trump’s visit to Capitol Hill, Johnson spent a little less than half an hour at closed doors with the Senate Republicans, who say they have clear eyes about wanting to approve Trump’s legislative agenda in the law as quickly as possible. They have been working behind the scene where they can, they have said, to collaborate with the house.
But the Senate Republicans also made it clear that they intend to modify the bill.
“When the house acts, and [Johnson is] Pretty sure they will, then we will have something that we can face our members and discover if there are things that we need to adjust, modify or change: “The majority leader, John Thune, RS.D., he said.” And I think he understands and accepts it completely. “
President Donald Trump arrives with the president of the Mike Johnson Chamber for a republican meeting of the Chamber in the United States Capitol, on May 20, 2025 in Washington.
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Senator John Hoeven, RN.D., also said that Johnson knows that the Senate will modify it.
“He knows that we are going to make changes. He is a really intelligent guy, a good guy, he knows that we are going to make changes,” said Hoeven. “We have a lot of agreement. There are some areas that we have to change due to our rules, he knows.”
No matter how carefully the needle is threaded so that the moderates of the House of Representatives and the hard lines on board for a vote at the end of this week, if the bill is resettled by the Senate, runs the risk of creating very difficult obstacles for Johnson on the road when the bill returns to the camera.
Meanwhile, the minority leader of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, sent a letter to the president of Johnson and the Rules Committee, Virginia Foxx, requesting that “they will reprogram immediately” that the meeting of the 1 AM Rules Committee.
The New York Democrat denounced the legislation of what he called the “greatest” cut to Medicaid and nutritional assistance in the history of the United States.
“It is deeply worrying that you would try to score this legislation for the throats of the American people,” Jeffries wrote in a statement to his colleagues. “What else are you hiding?”
“It is imperative that the meeting immediately reprographs so that it can be discussed in daylight,” Jeffries added. The Republicans scheduled the audience as soon as possible to comply with the camera rules after the Budget Committee approved the package on Sunday night.
Before the meeting, Trump, flanked by Johnson, issued a severe warning for Republicans who do not align in the “law of a large bill”, warning that they could be primarized if they vote against their signature bill.
Trump emphasized that the Republican party is a unified party, but also added that people will not get everything they want in the bill.
“Well, it’s not a matter of Holdouts, we have a tremendously unified party. We have never had a party like this. There are some people who want a couple of things that I may not like or that they will not get, but I think we are going to have tremendous, not luck. We have tremendous talent“Trump said.
After the president left, the Republican leaders delivered comments but did not take questions.
“Failure is simply not an option,” said Johnson. “We have to do this.”
Hannah Demissie of ABC News contributed to this report.
