President Trump pushed House Republicans to come to an agreement on the “big, beautiful” reconciliation bill that would fund his domestic agenda.
Speaking to a GOP conference meeting at the Capitol for over an hour on Tuesday morning, Trump made clear in the meeting that he’s losing patience with all holdout factions of the conference, according to the White House.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) wants the bill through the House by Memorial Day, which is now days away. But his caucus is warring over a host of critical issues, from cuts to Medicaid and where to set the SALT cap.
What’s in that bill? We break it down here.
A host of Trump administration officials are also on Capitol Hill in budget or oversight hearings. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will testify before two Senate panels, coming on the heels of Trump’s talk Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin and an uptick in Israel’s assault on Gaza. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum will also testify in various committees.
Meanwhile, a book that purports to lay out how allies of former President Biden kept quiet about his decline, “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, publishes Tuesday, just days after Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis was revealed.
Follow along for these and other twists and turns all day.