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The White House is scheduled to meet with fiscal hawks and House Republican leadership on Wednesday as progress for the “one big, beautiful” reconciliation bill is stalling.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), and Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) are heading to the White House for a 3 p.m. meeting with President Donald Trump, which will include members of the Freedom Caucus, multiple sources confirmed to the Washington Examiner.
This is the second major step Trump has taken to try to unify the Republican conference after his speech to the House GOP on Capitol Hill Tuesday failed to sway several key holdouts from both the Freedom Caucus and SALT Caucus.
The meeting at the White House comes after talks between the fiscal hawks and leadership appeared to fall apart overnight. Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), who has been leading the Freedom Caucus opposition to the bill, said early Wednesday that conversations were “not good.”
