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House Republicans are steamrolling toward this morning’s scheduled Budget Committee markup even as a growing number of issues threaten to block progress on their “big, beautiful bill.”

After a 26-and-a-half-hour markup, Republicans on Wednesday advanced the health care section of the GOP’s sweeping tax bill that would slash Medicaid spending by hundreds of billions of dollars.

Speaker Mike Johnson is scrambling to negotiate with competing factions of his conference as the clock ticks to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda through the House next week.

The Energy and Commerce Committee pulled an all-nighter debating the potential impacts of Republican proposals to change Medicaid, part of the GOP’s domestic policy megabill.

Tuesday was all about the SALT Republicans. Now, it’s the conservative hard-liners’ turn to make noise.

House Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie has had to make peace between moderates wary of deep cuts to Medicaid and conservatives angling for the cuts to make Republicans’ domestic policy megabill work.

House Republicans are gearing up for their most consequential megabill markups today with massive, unresolved policy fights that could unravel President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has set out to visit all 50 states.

The House Ag Committee is expected to release its reconciliation bill text Monday evening.

House Republicans are proposing work requirements for Medicaid and are planning to limit states’ use of the lucrative provider tax, which some consider a loophole that allows states to increase federal spending on the program.