President Mike Johnson met on Tuesday at the White House with President Donald Trump and the Republicans of the House of Representatives who did not vote for the Budget Law Project approved by the Senate to finance the Trump Agenda, according to a Republican leadership assistant.
The leaders of the Republican Party trust Trump again to help take the bill in the finish line this week before the camera takes a two -week recess.
Johnson has promised to approve the amendment of the Senate to the budget plan of the House of Representatives, with a vote scheduled on Wednesday. But like the first time the Chamber approved the Budget Plan in February, Johnson has several public votes to turn, and has the president to deliver them.
When asked Tuesday afternoon if Trump had changed his mind, Johnson replied: “I think he did.”
In this archive photo of March 4, 2025, President Donald Trump greets the representative Chip Roy when he goes after heading to a joint session of the Congress in the United States Capitol in Washington, DC
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“I think we will advance this week,” he said.
When asked before the meeting what was his message for the holdouts, Johnson said: “We have to do the job. The American people tell us, and we are optimistic, we will advance this ball.”
Several of the Republican party holdouts are invited to meet Trump, but representatives Ralph Norman and Tim Burchett, two of the holdouts, told journalists who were not invited to the meeting.
Another difficult vote, the representative Chip Roy, told reporters that there are “enough” opposite “republicans to kill him. He said he asked the senators to come to a meeting to explain mathematics on a blackboard that shows how their plan would reduce the deficit, but “they cannot try mathematics.”
Johnson can afford to lose three votes, but even a dozen Republicans have indicated that they are not yet convinced to vote for it.
It is required that the approval of this legislation through both chambers initiate the process to prepare the draft Mass Budget Law that includes much of the Trump National Radical Agenda.
Johnson also told reporters that the White House will provide withdrawals “a combination of commitments and guarantees and all leaders in both cameras.”
The leader of the majority, Steve Scalise, said: “The president has been our best defender and whip so that this agenda progresses in each step of the road. And this bill is no different. Failure is not an option.”
