Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) is racing to get House Republicans behind a Senate-passed framework for enacting large swaths of President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda, even as conservative opposition to the measure grows. President Trump is set to meet with a group of House Republicans Tuesday afternoon, but conservatives say they are skeptical his pressure campaign will win over holdouts. The White House meeting comes as Speaker Johnson is struggling to coalesce his razor-thin majority around the measure, which would unlock the budget reconciliation process that Republicans are looking to use to pass tax cuts, border funding and energy policy. Reports say “definitely more than a dozen” hardline conservatives plan to vote against the resolution due to the belief it does not contain sufficient commitments that the Senate will accept sweeping spending cuts. Speaker Johnson can only afford to lose three votes, assuming there is full attendance in the chamber. Hardline members have urged House GOP leaders to skip a budget resolution vote altogether and start working on the details so they can get upfront commitments from the Senate, but House GOP leaders have rejected that, saying it is urgent to quickly move on the formalities of the legislation while saying it does not prevent the final bill having historic cuts.
The Senate convened at 10:00 A.M. and will spend the day processing nominations, including: confirmation of Executive Calendar #56 Elbridge Colby, of the District of Columbia, to be Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, confirmation of Executive Calendar #54 George Glass, of Oregon, to be Ambassador to Japan and confirmation of Executive Calendar #67 Mike Huckabee, of Arkansas, to be Ambassador to the State of Israel. The Senate may also take up a motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar #55 Peter Hoekstra, of Michigan, to be Ambassador to Canada.
The House convened at 10:00 A.M. and will consider H. Res. 294 – Providing for consideration of the joint resolution (S.J. Res. 18) disapproving the rule submitted by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection relating to ‘‘Overdraft Lending: Very Large Financial Institutions’’; providing for consideration of the joint resolution (S.J. Res. 28) disapproving the rule submitted by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection relating to ‘‘Defining Larger Participants of a Market for General-Use Digital Consumer Payment Applications’’; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1526) to amend title 28, United States Code, to limit the authority of district courts to provide injunctive relief, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 22) to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require proof of United States citizenship to register an individual to vote in elections for Federal office, and for other purposes.
The House is also expected to take up pursuant to a Rule, H.R. 1526 – No Rogue Rulings Act.
