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President Donald Trump's agenda was thrown into chaos after a group of GOP hardliners prevented his “large, beautiful bill” from getting out of an important house committee on Friday – and a great embarrassment for republican leaders and Trump himself.

The spokesman Mike Johnson and his management team are now spending the weekend to win these Republicans before trying the vote again. The household committee of the house has planned a rare session late Sunday for 10 p.m. ET to try to promote the draft law from the committee in order to prepare for a ground vote by the end of the week.

It will be a difficult task to turn around the hardliners that demand more expenses from Medicaid and Federal Clean Energy programs, especially since Johnson also has to be careful not to alienate moderate.

How we came here: The GOP leaders made a gambling and continued the coordination on Friday of the committee on Friday, despite repeated warnings of a core of the right republicans, that they wanted to block the efforts. Ultimately, five Republicans refused the law on the meeting of the budget committee in order to combine the various pieces of Trump's comprehensive tax and expenditure cuts.

The opposition of the legislators annoyed many members of their party who have spent months to design the legislation, which includes trillion dollars of tax cuts and a large thrust for the US military and national security – largely paid by overhauling federal health and nutritional programs and cuts in energy programs.

Latest from the hill: While the Republicans are discussing options for the move of Trump's agenda this weekend, a group of GOP legislators are committed to raising taxes for income-value earners in order to compensate for the costs of salt, state and local tax deduction.

Swing distribution members argue that the increase in the top tax class would help compensate for the costs for the deductions and to give the legislators more flexibility, but hardliners have warned that they do not agree to increase the salt cap if it is not paid.

Since jockeying continues for a consensus, all eyes are aimed at the meeting of the House budget Committee. Republican MP Buddy Carter, who works in the committee, expressed confidence that Trump's draft law will say goodbye this week, and said Fox News yesterday that he is “very confident that we will make it”.

“It will be on Wednesday, Thursday, at the latest on Thursday,” said Georgia's Republican.

Riane Lumer from CNN contributed to this report.

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