A new conflict is brewing between House Republican leadership and some of the most conservative members of the conference.
The hard-line House Freedom Caucus is again pressing House Speaker Mike Johnson to follow their lead to pass President Trump’s agenda, this time offering a pathway to avoid a spending showdown in March.
Ten years ago this month, nine conservative House Republicans, frustrated with the party’s leadership, met at the conference’s retreat in Hershey, Pennsylvania, to form their own caucus. “The original working title was the Reasonable Nutjob Caucus,
Speaker Mike Johnson’s power within the Republican Party is about to be tested unlike anything he has faced, with Donald Trump’s agenda on the line.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) arrived at this week’s House Republican retreat with hopes of uniting the fractious GOP conference around a plan to pass President Trump’s agenda — but instead, the group is departing south Florida with rising tensions in its ranks.
Some House Republicans are frustrated with a lack of progress in the reconciliation process, but leadership says the conference is right on schedule.
A legislative panel on Tuesday advanced the state’s supplemental budget, but not before slashing roughly $235 million from Gov. Mark Gordon’s recommendations.
After two-and-half days of meeting with members, House Speaker Mike Johnson said Republicans are still on schedule. But major questions over strategy aren’t resolved.
After fours years of criticizing budget deficits under Joe Biden, Republicans now have a math problem of their own.
Trump’s move to pause all federal grants and loans is a “legitimate exercise of executive oversight,” said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., who is often considered an institutionalist who has insisted upon the importance of Congressional power. “I don’t think putting a hold on things is extraordinary.”
Among those raising alarms was Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska, one of three House Republicans representing a district Trump lost in November. He said the warnings Tuesday from himself and others in the GOP helped influence the Trump administration to “narrow what they were doing in a way.” (The White House rescinded the order hours later.)
A three-day meeting of U.S. House Republicans, meant to jumpstart President Donald Trump's $4 trillion tax cut agenda, ended on Wednesday without a deal as party fiscal hawks refused to move ahead unless the plan reduced the $1.