Negotiations underway as House GOP races to get Trump’s agenda back on track for Sunday vote

Intense negotiations are underway among House Republicans in the leadup to a crucial vote Sunday evening as GOP leadership races to get Trump’s sweeping tax and spending cuts bill back on track after an embarrassing setback late last week.

Intense negotiations are underway among House Republicans in the leadup to a crucial vote Sunday evening as GOP leadership races to get Trump’s sweeping tax and spending cuts bill back on track after an embarrassing setback late last week. House Speaker Mike Johnson signaled a potential compromise to get holdouts on board and advance the bill in the House Budget Committee on Sunday , saying that Republicans are working on moving up the timeline for the implementation of work requirements for Medicaid recipients – a key change hardliners are pushing for. “The concern is, what we’re trying to work with is the ability of the states to retool their systems and ensure the verification process is to make sure that all the new laws and all the new safeguards are replacing can actually be enforced,” he said. “And so we’re working through all those details, and we’ll get it done.” It’s a change that South Carolina Rep. Ralph Norman, one of the Republicans who voted against advancing Trump’s massive domestic policy bill on Friday, said on Saturday was necessary to get him to support the bill. Accelerating the phase out of tax credits for green energy projects under the Inflation Reduction Act was also among the changes under consideration, he said, noting that the holdouts “absolutely” must get both changes. “Otherwise, we vote no,” he added. Norman told CNN that he expects House Budget Committee’s chairman Jodey Arrington to offer an amendment during Sunday night’s Budget Committee meeting to make some of the changes.