GOP hardliner defy the leaders of the party and Trump to block the agenda

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President Donald Trump's agenda was thrown into chaos after a group of GOP hardliners blocked the draft law on Friday in a key committee -and a great embarrassment for the Republican leaders and Trump himself.

The spokesman Mike Johnson and his management team will now spend the weekend to win these Republicans before trying to give up this vote again, possibly until Sunday. However, it will be a difficult task to shoot the right republicans who demand more expenses from Medicaid and Federal Clean Energy programs, especially since Johnson also has to pay attention to not alienating a moderate one, the voices of which he also needs with changes to the legislation.

A core of the right republicans had warned Johnson and his management team both privately and publicly that they plan to reject the vote on Friday at the House budget committee meeting. But GOP leaders took gambling and still continued with the vote.

Five Republicans rejected the legislation on Friday against the legislative template of the budget committee in order to collect the various parts of Trump's comprehensive tax and spending cuts together. The committee is not authorized to make significant political changes during its meeting, but the draft law must be made out of the committee in order to bring it to a complete votes. The NO voices were: Ralph Norman from South Carolina, Chip Roy from Texas, Josh Brecheen from Oklahoma, Andrew Clyde from Georgia and Lloyd Smucker from Pennsylvania.

“There are only a few outstanding topics. I think everyone will come to yes,” Smucker told reporters on Friday afternoon and added that the committee would like to hold a voice “ideally on Monday”. Smucker voted with the GOP hardliners – but only for procedural reasons so that he could call it again.

Her opposition annoyed many of her Republicans, of whom many months to develop the bill, which includes trillion dollars of tax cuts and a large thrust for the US military and for national security – largely paid by overhaul to the federal health and nutrition programs and the cuts in energy programs.

“These are people who have promised their voters not to increase their taxes. And these five NO voices only voted for the greatest tax increase in American history,” said GOP Rep. Tom McClintock from California, who voted for the promotion of Trump's law after it failed.

Negotiations with leadership have not yet been completed. The GOP -HARDLINER have requested stricter overhaul for Medicaid – in particular the work requirements instead of waiting until 2029 – and a deeper reduction in a control program for clean energy.

But all changes to the invoice could annoy Johnson's fragile coalition in the house, where he cannot afford big changes that would disturb the more moderate members of the GOP. And Trump himself – who observes exactly changes to Medicaid – also has to unsubscribe.

Steve Scalisue, leader of Johnson and House majority, will continue to work angrily on assessing the conservatives that belonged to the negotiation negotiations at night on Thursday. Roy and other GOP hardliners repeatedly asked Johnson to delay the vote. They warned the party leaders both privately and publicly that they wanted to set the coordination at the meeting of the House budget panel on Friday.

However, the GOP leaders refused to bow to the demands of the hardliners, to delay the vote and strive to quickly advance the bill. Johnson said he wanted to say goodbye to the bill next week, although this view is now unsure.

“We are working on answers. Some of them have to receive answers from the Trump administration. But we have a fairly clear idea of ​​what the last pieces are and we are working through,” said Scalisue.

Scalisue said they all agree on changes they want to make, but they work through the timing implementation. For example, the work requirements for adult work requirements inscribed in Medicaid would only come into force in 2029 after Trump left the office. And some of the subsidies for clean energy that come into force under bidges would not be switched off for years.

Skalisue said Trump, who returns from a trip abroad, had kept an eye on the progress of the invoice. Norman said, however, he didn't hear directly from the president.

Trump posted the social social social social social social social: “We don't need” grandstands “in the Republican Party. Stop talking and do it!”

“The Republicans have to unite”, who have a big nice bill! “, He said.

Another of the holdouts, Clyde, had another problem with the invoice – the failure, weapon -uppressors, also known as a silencer, to remove from the regulation according to the National Firearms Act. However, it is not clear whether this change of guidelines would make it into the final invoice. GOP leaders have to follow strict budget regulations if they design the package because they plan to say goodbye without using democratic voices, which forces the party to comply with the rules of the Senate that enable a bill to avoid a filibuster.

The house manager of the house, Rep. Jodey Arrington, could only afford to lose two GOP votes in the committee vote.

In a sign of the severity of the vote, the GOP leaders, Rep. Brandon Gill, whose wife her second child had just had to return to Washington on Friday morning to get the vote.

Two GOP sources previously reported CNN on Thursday that Gill would not be present – which would lead to the fact that owners could only lose one voice.

Veronica Stracqualursi and Morgan Rimmer from CNN contributed to this report.

This story has been updated with additional developments.