Speaker Mike Johnson is still facing a bloc of persistent right-wing holdouts on his "big, beautiful bill" even after President Trump urged House Republicans to support it in a closed-door meeting. Why it matters: Johnson (R-La.

The conservative hard-liners who’ve helped to hold up the Republicans’ domestic agenda appear ready to support the massive package after a furious pressure campaign from President Trump and

The House Republican budget bill cleared a major hurdle over the weekend, but Speaker Mike Johnson has a lot of negotiating to do if he wants get it to the floor by Thursday. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump backed off meeting Putin,

House Speaker Mike Johnson teased plans to bump up the timeline for implementing work requirements on Medicaid to help win over support from fiscal hawks on the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that got shot down in committee on Friday.

As the fate of President Donald Trump's so-called "big, beautiful bill" remains in doubt, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is now enlisting the president's help – against members of his own party. Politico reported Monday that Johnson now wants Trump to personally apply pressure to far-right House Republicans that oppose the bill in its current form due to their opinion that it doesn't go far enough in cutting federal spending.

Trump's Truth Social post shows his willingness to buck traditional Republican opposition to taxing the rich as he seeks to pass his agenda through Congress.