- House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., worked past midnight trying to resolve issues with Trump's plan. Opposition is mounting from various corners of the GOP majority as he tries to muscle the party's signature package to passage without any votes from Democrats. On one hand, the conservative leader of the Freedom Caucus derides the new Medicaid work requirements as a "joke" that do not go far enough at cost-cutting. Meanwhile, a handful of GOP lawmakers from New York and other high-tax states are refusing to support the measure unless changes are made to give deeper state and local tax deductions for their constituents back home.
- Democrats decry the package as a give-away to the wealthy at the expense of safety net programs that millions of Americans rely on. Democrats also stayed up all night, forcing marathon public hearings and have proposed hundreds of amendments trying to change the package, with dozens of votes that largely failed.
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