House Speaker Mike Johnson cautioned the Senate in a closed door lunch on Tuesday not to make big changes to the reconciliation bill, Axios has learned. Why it matters: If Johnson can get his conference in line,

President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning turned up the heat on the more than a dozen House Republican holdout votes endangering passage of the bill.

The president spoke with House Republicans on Tuesday in what appeared to be part pep rally, part pressure campaign.

Speaker Mike Johnson is still facing a bloc of persistent right-wing holdouts on his "big, beautiful bill" even after President Trump urged House Republicans to support it in a closed-door meeting. Why it matters: Johnson (R-La.

Trump will try to unify divided House Republicans on the multitrillion-dollar package that is at risk of collapsing.

President Donald Trump urged House Republicans to stop negotiating and pass his sweeping filibuster-proof reconciliation bill Tuesday.

Speaker Mike Johnson expressed optimism that the budget bill would reach the House floor before Memorial Day as lawmakers prepare to vote at 10 p.m. Sunday.

The Republican-backed tax and spending bill would add trillions of dollars to the federal deficit and negatively affect the poorest of Americans, experts say.