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“ We cannot make everyone 100%
Speaker Mike Johnson said that “very positive” progress has been made to pass Donald Trump‘S Megabill, but recognized that “we cannot make everyone 100% happy” with the final package, reports CNN.
CNN quotes Johnson as journalists tell:
When you have legislation which is also complete and with so many agenda articles involved, you will have many different priorities and preferences between people because they represent different districts and have different interests.
But We cannot make everyone 100%. It is impossible. This is a deliberative body. It is a legislative process. By definition, we must all abandon our personal preferences. [I’m] Will never ask anyone to compromise basic principles, but preferences must be sold for the greatest good, and that is what I think that people recognize and are struggling with it.
It is not clear if it has the necessary number to adopt the bill while the Chamber is preparing to take a key procedural vote to bring the bill closer to the final adoption.
Johnson said that he – and Trump – had spoken to conservative carnliners and republicans of the swing district all day about their concerns, adding that “there are more conversations to hold”.
We had a lot of great conversations. I have met individuals and groups all day long, just like the president – who is also fully committed – trying to convince everyone, it is the best product that we can produce. There are more conversations to hold.
Key events
Chris Stein
The Congressional Black Caucus, which is entirely made up of democrats, has just kept a press conference to explode tax policies and spend that Republicans seek to go through Congress, saying that they would be devastating for African-Americans.
“This bill is cruel and bad. It was ugly when it adopted the Chamber for the first time, then the Senate Republicans aggravated. Robin Kelly.
“We know who will be the most affected: blacks. 13.3 million blacks rely on Medicaid. This includes 5.7 million children. And if it is not serious enough, the consequences of this bill go beyond the individual person.
Chris Stein
Russ VoughtThe director of the White House management and budget office was spotted when entering the Capitol while Republican leaders seek to persuade their party to support the Donald Trump tax and expenses.
CNN reports that the White House informed the leaders of the GOP that Asset I obtained the held hardliner in a better place, quoting a person familiar with the discussions. As we have reported, some of these members suggested that they were closer to a yes after a “productive” meeting with the president, although certain details are still being postponed.
While intense negotiations behind the scenes are dragging and the room remains frozen, NBC News reports that the leaders of the GOP also tell members that at least two Republicans who should support the bill have not yet arrived at the Capitol, and that is part of the reason why a vote on a modification is retained. One thing is certain, however: leadership works furiously to obtain the retained, because the loss of the vote of the rule would be a major embarrassment for the president.
House stopped while GOP managers continue to try to reach the suspensions, delaying the rules
The legislators were informed that they could leave the soil of the House, because the delays led to a five -minute procedural vote which remained open for more than an hour while the leaders of the GOP tried frantically to rally the republican retained to take behind the bill.
Johnson has left the ground and returned to his office on the phone, according to NBC News, while the hill reports that many deficit hawks in the Freedom caucus And beyond that, which threatened to land the bill, are still in a meeting in its ceremonial office off the house.
With the House stopped, the vote of the very important rule was also delayed and we have no calendar when it could happen.
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The American district judge Randolph Moss said in a 128 -page notice that Trump’s January 20 proclamation blocking all immigrants “engaged in the invasion through the southern border” to claim that asylum or other humanitarian protections exceeded its executive power.
The decision is a setback for Trump, whose aggressive repression of immigration saw the number of people surprised illegally crossing to record low levels.
THE Union of American Civil Liberties raised the challenge to the ban on Trump asylum in February, arguing that it had violated American laws and international treaties.
Moss said that he would remain on the date of entry into force of his order for 14 days to allow the Trump administration to call.
Key Gop Holdout says he is “a little closer” to the vote yes after the meeting of Trump-Vance
TIM BURCHETTof Tennessee, struck a positive note after a two -hour meeting that he and other preservatives had with Donald Trump At the White House this afternoon, saying it was “very productive” and putting it “a little closer” to vote yes on the megabill of the president.
He said to CNN:
It puts me a little closer. We will meet a little here and take everything again and make sure that we all have our facts directly.
In a post on X, Burchett said Jd vance had also been present at the “very informative” meeting with the president and said that it was “a very good day”. He said:
The president was wonderful as always, informative, funny, told me that he liked to see me on television, which is pretty cool.
Big day today, friends. I hope we get this thing. The president answered all our questions, was very instructive. JD Vance was there. It was a very good day.
“ We cannot make everyone 100%
Speaker Mike Johnson said that “very positive” progress has been made to pass Donald Trump‘S Megabill, but recognized that “we cannot make everyone 100% happy” with the final package, reports CNN.
CNN quotes Johnson as journalists tell:
When you have legislation which is also complete and with so many agenda articles involved, you will have many different priorities and preferences between people because they represent different districts and have different interests.
But We cannot make everyone 100%. It is impossible. This is a deliberative body. It is a legislative process. By definition, we must all abandon our personal preferences. [I’m] Will never ask anyone to compromise basic principles, but preferences must be sold for the greatest good, and that is what I think that people recognize and are struggling with it.
It is not clear if it has the necessary number to adopt the bill while the Chamber is preparing to take a key procedural vote to bring the bill closer to the final adoption.
Johnson said that he – and Trump – had spoken to conservative carnliners and republicans of the swing district all day about their concerns, adding that “there are more conversations to hold”.
We had a lot of great conversations. I have met individuals and groups all day long, just like the president – who is also fully committed – trying to convince everyone, it is the best product that we can produce. There are more conversations to hold.
Members of Freedom caucus And others meet in a ceremonial office off the ground of the house, and back and forth between there and the house of the house, the hill reports, a few moments before the room is ready to vote to advance the bill.
The hill has this observation: “Ralph NormanSouthern Carolina, and Caucus Chair Andy HarrisFrom Maryland, who had committed to voting against the rule earlier during the day, does not answer now when he was asked if they were still going to vote no. »»
The preliminary motion on Bill goes through the house on the parties of the parties, but it is not clear if GOP has figures for a subsequent vote
Chris Stein
Back on the floor of the room, the Republicans managed to pass through the room a preliminary motion on the bill.
The motion, which was approved on the party lines with 214 in favor and 212, opens the way to another vote later in the afternoon to adopt the rule. If that succeeds, the House debates the bill, then vote on its final adoption.
However, it is not clear if the GOP has the votes it needs to adopt the rule.
Chris Stein
On the way to the Capitol, two conservative republican legislators reported the optimism that the bill would pass through the chamber.
“I think these votes will take a little, a little or much longer than usual. But it’s Washington. You look at how the sausage is made, and that’s how business takes place. Nancy Mace told journalists.
Like several other legislators, she ended up driving from her Southern Caroline district to Washington DC after a wave of thunderstorms yesterday caused theft delays and cancellations of theft around the capital.
“There are things in the bill I don’t like, but should I change the bill because I did not get what I wanted? I don’t think it would be good for America,” said TROY NEHLS from Texas, while he smokes a cigar.
