Rep. Jeff Van Drew said the President “understood” his concerns, which are also shared by a number of other Republicans.

House Speaker Mike Johnson will try against the odds to muscle a Republican budget blueprint to passage this week.

The Senate plan, passed last week, does not include Medicaid cuts. The Senate budget resolution omits tax policy but sets the spending agenda to enact Trump’s border, defense and energy policies, punting negotiations on tax policy to a later date and breaking up the spending plan into two separate measures.

The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives will try to take its first step on Tuesday toward enacting President Donald Trump's tax-cut and border agenda, giving Speaker Mike Johnson hours to corral wayward Republicans into supporting the effort.

The House Rules Committee, the final gatekeepers for most bills before a House floor vote, is meeting to debate a measure that GOP leaders want to have on Trump's desk by sometime

House Republicans’ budget proposal to advance President Trump’s legislative agenda is facing serious headwinds with several GOP members suggesting they will vote against the bill. Speaker Mike Johnson is facing a pivotal moment in his leadership over the House to pass a budget resolution advancing the president’s first-year tax and spending priorities — the first step of the budget reconciliation process — this week.