Speaker Mike Johnson can lose just three members’ votes and still pass the bill in a party-line vote. But more than a dozen Republicans are currently “no’s.”
House Republican leadership is racing to get enough GOP lawmakers on board to send President Donald Trump’s megabill to his desk.
But Johnson is facing potential attendance problems due to storms in the Washington, D.C., area, in addition to stubborn resistance from a handful of his conference members.
Any changes to the House version of the bill would send it back to the Senate for approval, almost certainly blowing past the self-imposed July 4 deadline.
Republican leaders in the U.S. House are racing to hold a vote Wednesday on President Donald Trump’s marquee domestic policy package, but weather woes and persistent GOP resistance threaten the near-term fate of the megabill.
