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On Sunday, after a weekend with intensive negotiations with Republican leaders and officials of the White House, they switched their voices to “present” so that the measure could go forward without providing their support. It sent the bill beyond a crucial process, but showed that the package was still very difficult.

“Reflections will continue until this moment,” said representative Jodey C. Arrington from Texas, the chairman of the panel when he opened the session late Sunday evening. “You will continue during the week and I suspect until we put this large, beautiful bill on the floor of the house.”

The vote was 17 to 16, with all four Republicans who initially voted to defeat the legislation – representative Chip Roy from Texas, Josh Brecheen from Oklahoma, Ralph Norman from South Carolina and Andrew Clyde from Georgia – agreed.

In a long explanation in the minutes after the coordination on social media, Mr. Roy said that he and the three other conservatives had received obligations to make changes to the legislative template, which included the implementation of new work requirements for Medicaid and the tax credits for clean energy created by Inflation Reduction Act. He stated no further details about both suggestions, and the Republican leaders did not provide any information about which concessions they had promised.

But Mr. Roy said: “The bill does not yet meet the moment” and alluded to the fact that he wanted Medicaid to a much deeper cuts in a sign of the difficult path in front of us. In addition to the rules of the rules, the draft law is controlled, which controls whether and how it is discussed on the house floor, including the changes that can be made before a final vote. Two of the holds, Mr. Roy and Mr. Norman, are members with the authority to increase it from this panel.

The Democrats in the household committee were outraged when he was asked to coordinate laws that were still in river. The representative Brendan Boyle from Pennsylvania, the top democrat in the committee, asked Mr. Arrington whether the legislator could be able to “have made partnership agreements” before submitting their vote.

“Make sure that all members know transparently what the hell is in this matter,” said Mr. Boyle. That was an allusion to the negotiations that Mr. Johnson with the holding outs in a vestibule in front of the listening room had continued minutes before the committee had hit.

Mr. Arrington replied: “I don't know anything about secondary transactions or offers. I only know that we are in a place where we can vote today.”

The legislation would permanently make President Trump's tax reductions in 2017 and eliminate taxes for tips and overtime and meet the president's election promise. It would also increase the expenses for enforcing military and immigration. Reasures at Medicaid, Food Markers, Education and Subsidies for Clean Energy would compensate for part of the price of the invoice, although they would not cover the total costs of 3.8 trillion dollars for over 10 years.

The four Republicans of the committee voted against the legislation when the Budget committee met for the first time, and protested the schedule for the work requirements for Medicaid recipients -which the law would not impose until 2029 after the next presidential elections, and the provisions that are aimed at the Clean -Eyngy credits in the law on the Inflation Reduction the measure partially, but not completely abolished.

The work requirements are largely popular with the Republicans of the Congress, and even those who have sentenced to other cuts against Medicaid have announced that they will support such requirements.

Mr. Johnson said reporters in front of the listening room minutes before the vote on Sunday evening that he had agreed to increase the work requirements for Medicaid recipients “as soon as possible”.

“I think every Republican's wish has always been to make the work requirements real and implementable as soon as possible,” he said. “We learned that some of the states would need a longer delay time to add the implementation of the new directive. So we will drive them as far as possible.”

In his statement, Mr. Roy also suggested that the Republicans wanted to rethink suggestions to reduce Medicaid editions that the party leaders had previously excluded from moderate members at the behest.

One would restrict the way states use a tax gap to increase federal expenses for Medicaid. Large pieces of these savings would be due to the reduction in Medicaid editions in poorer southern countries.

The other would change the way Medicaid is financed. The federal government currently gives less money to richer states that Medicaid can better support with its own taxpayers. And there is an exceptionally generous agreement for all countries for everyone who registered through the expansion of Obamacare Medicaid.

Mr. Roy called this a “perverse financing structure”, which ultimately increases “the likelihood that the deficits will continue”, and the states that have not yet expanded Medicaid, such as Texas, what will do in the future.

House conservatives have also said goodbye to the Clean Energy Tax Credits created under President Joseph R. Biden Jr. in inflation reduction act.

The invoice would severely limit most large tax credits for clean energy, but would not remove all legal provisions. This was an essential requirement of the ultra -conservatives, who said that their party should have no problem to lift a statute that the Democrats have adopted their own way through reconciliation even through a uniform republican opposition.

But at least three dozen republicans in the house, many who represent districts who have benefited from the tax credits for clean energy, demanded that at least some of the incentives, such as for nuclear power or domestic transfer, to protect jobs and strengthen the US energy security.

There are other outstanding problems that need to be solved so that legislation passes on the house floor.

A group of moderate holdouts from New York and other higher -taxer states threatens to withhold their votes, unless the draft law contains a significant increase in state and local tax or salt deduction.

Some Republicans, including representative Nick Lalota from New York, have admitted the idea of ​​paying the larger withdrawal by paying the highest income class to return there before the 2017 tax reductions, and increased from 37 percent to 39.6 percent.

“It is a tax -responsible step that reflects the priorities of the new Republican Party,” wrote Lalota in a social media contribution. “Protect working families, fix the deficit, fix the unfair salt cap and protect programs such as Medicaid and Snap without increasing taxes to the middle class.”

Maya C. Miller And James C. McKinley Jr. Reported reports.