House Freedom Caucus heading to White House after delay play on Trump's 'big, beautiful bill'

The conservative House Freedom Caucus is demanding House GOP leaders delay plans to vote on President Donald Trump's one big beautiful bill this week The group of GOP rebels is joining House Speaker Mike Johnson R-La for a meeting at the White House later on Wednesday in an apparent bid to hash out differences on the massive piece of act Fox News was advised I don't think it can be done in the present day I mean the runway is short in contemporary times House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris R-Md stated reporters in a press conference on Wednesday Rep Scott Perry R-Pa explained the group accepted an offer from the White House on Tuesday night He suggested the offer was not yet included in the broad-based bill that Republicans are hoping to pass via the budget reconciliation process this year TRUMP'S 'BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL' PASSES KEY HOUSE HURDLE AFTER GOP REBEL MUTINY We need to continue to work at that We as members are at the table We don't want the deal to be ended Perry revealed A House Freedom Caucus source explained Fox News Digital that the speaker was still digesting the agreement though lawmakers at the press conference declined to say what the deal was but a White House official pushed back in a message to Fox News Radio There was no deal The White House presented HFC with protocol options that the Administration can live with provided they can get the votes but they cannot get the votes the official disclosed There was no deal The HFC will meet with the president at pm to hopefully strike one A House GOP leadership aide also narrated Fox News Digital that the White House only provided the Freedom Caucus with approach options rather than a deal Johnson had communicated reporters this week that the bill could see a chamber-wide vote as early as Wednesday However Harris reported I'm not sure this can be done this week I'm pretty confident it could be done in days But that's up to leadership to decide House conservatives have been pushing for the bill to include more aggressive cuts to Medicaid specifically the expanded population who became eligible under the Affordable Care Act and a full repeal of former President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act IRA and its green force subsidies Allies of Johnson and other House GOP leaders have accused the GOP rebels of moving the goal posts from their initial demands of needing at least trillion in spending cuts to offset the cost of new spending in the bill However Harris challenged that notion during the press conference We're saying work within the goalposts rearrange it within the goalposts in accordance with what the president wants end waste fraud and abuse in Medicaid which is wasting dollars that should be spent on the truly vulnerable and then end as much of the green new scam as accomplishable Harris announced Earlier this morning two key critics of the bill explained Fox News Digital that negotiations between the House Freedom Caucus and House GOP leaders had regressed Rep Chip Roy R-Texas explained talks went massively south but declined to go into detail Rep Ralph Norman R-S C similarly stated in a text message to Fox News Digital THINGS ARE NOT GOING WELL HOUSE GOP TARGETS ANOTHER DEM OFFICIAL ACCUSED OF BLOCKING ICE AMID DELANEY HALL FALLOUTThere are several outstanding issues with the bill that have not yet been resolved blue state Republicans pushing for a raise in state and local tax SALT deduction caps and conservatives demanding stricter work requirement rules for Medicaid as well as a full repeal of green vigor subsidies in the IRA Conservatives have been wary of the New York and California GOP lawmakers' push however The House Rules Committee the final gatekeeper before greater part rule sees a House-wide vote has been debating the bill since a m Wednesday The debate is expected to go through the better part of the day Critically Norman and Roy are members of the rules panel but even if they both voted against it in committee the numbers are still on Republicans' side to advance it The House of Representatives where Republicans can lose just three votes to pass anything along party lines is another story Republicans are working to pass Trump s policies on tax immigration force defense and the national debt all in one massive bill via the budget reconciliation process Budget reconciliation lowers the Senate s threshold for passage from votes to thereby allowing the party in power to skirt the minority in this matter Democrats to pass sweeping pieces of regulation provided they deal with the federal budget taxation or the national debt House Republicans are hoping to advance Trump s bill through the House and Senate by the Fourth of July