President Donald Trump plans to go to the Capitol on Tuesday to urge fractious House Republicans to overcome divisions and unite behind his signature tax-cut legislation.
Despite broad agreement among Republicans on the levy reductions at the core of the package, lawmakers have been mired in conflict over how deeply to cut safety-net programs, such as Medicaid and food stamps, how quickly to end green energy credits and how high to increase a limit on deductions for state and local taxes.
Party leaders have been frantically negotiating with groups of lawmakers as House Speaker Mike Johnson strives to meet a self-imposed deadline of passing the package through the House before Congress goes on break for Memorial Day at the end of this week.
Republican leaders faced an embarrassing setback when a key committee initially rejected the legislation on Friday as hardliners sought deeper cuts, but were able win the panel’s approval two days later after making concessions to the fiscal conservatives.
Trump has expressed frustration with the infighting among members of his party, calling those opposing the bill “grandstanders” and urging lawmakers to stop talking and start voting on the legislation.
During a Rose Garden ceremony at the White House on Monday to sign legislation to force social media companies to remove non-consensual sharing of sexually explicit images, lamented that his tax bill likely won’t get the same overwhelming support from lawmakers. The Take It Down Act passed the House with a 409-2 vote and the Senate by unanimous consent — margins that are incredibly rare in the narrowly divided Congress.
“I wish we could get that vote on some other things,” Trump said. “We have another bill coming up. Do you think we’ll get that vote? Maybe not. We should, but we probably won’t.”
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