President Donald Trump is declaring that Republicans are “making great progress” as the GOP conference wrangles with key policy holdups that could delay the package central to his agenda.
“We are making great progress on ‘The One, Big, Beautiful Bill,’” Trump said in a Truth Social post. The president also added that the megabill will include no tax on tips, Social Security and overtime.
Speaker Mike Johnson is also projecting confidence, telling reporters just moments before Trump’s post that House committees will “100%” hold more markups over the GOP megabill next week.
“I never have doubts,” Johnson said about the markup schedule after returning from a “productive” meeting at the White House with top tax writers and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Johnson’s still targeting an ambitious timeline for the House to pass Trump’s megabill by Memorial Day.
However, two key committee markups – Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce – have yet to be officially scheduled as Republicans struggle to find agreement on how to cut Medicaid and a slew of other government initiatives. And despite Trump doubling down on his tax cut promises, House GOP tax writers are privately making contingency plans to potentially scale back tax cuts from $4.5 trillion to $4 trillion over concerns their colleagues won’t be able to reach their spending goals.
