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Washington (AP) President Donald Trump arrived at Capitol Hill early Tuesday to try to seal the deal for his Big Tax Cross Bill, the power of political conviction was used to combine shared republicans of the house via the multitrillion dollar package that is at risk this week before the planned voices.

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Trump cited himself as a “cheerleader” for the Republican Party and praised the leadership of the speaker Mike Johnson when he went to the Republicans behind closed doors. He also criticized at least one of the Holdout Republicans as a “grandstand” in a warning to others.

“We have a very, very uniform party,” said Trump in hallway in Capitol. “We will have a big nice bill.”

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The president arrived at a crucial moment. Negotiations are involved and it is not at all clear that the package with its comprehensive tax breaks and cuts in Medicaid, Food Markers and Green Energy programs needs the support of the slim republican majority of the house. The legislator is also asked to add around 350 billion US dollars to Trump's border security, deportation and defense agenda.

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Conservatives insist on faster, steeper cuts in federal programs to compensate for the costs of the trillion dollars of lost tax revenue. At the same time, a core group of legislators from New York and other high tax states want major tax reliefs for their voters at home. The concerns about the 36 trillion US dollars are strong.

“I think it's pretty obvious that you will take more time,” said Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., The chairman of the House Freedom Caucus.

“These are complicated problems with trillion dollars,” he said. “We have to do this thing right.”

Trump's visit to the Republican at her weekly conference will test the President's deal-made powers. The Republican spokesman Johnson is determined to advance the bill and needs Trump to give dynamics, either through encouragement or political warnings or a combination of both.

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With the house democrats against the package, GOP leaders have almost no votes. An important hearing of the committee is hoping for a vote of the House Floor on Wednesday afternoon in the middle of the night.

Democrats argue that the package is hardly more than an giveaway for the rich at the expense of health and nutrition programs that Americans rely on.

“They literally try to keep the health care of millions of Americans away at that moment in the dead of the night,” said Hakeem Jeffries from New York.

“If this legislation is supposed to improve life for the American people, can someone explain to me why they would stop a hearing to advance the invoice at 1 p.m.?”

Trump pushed hard for the Republicans to unite behind the draft law, which was unique in his image as an internal initiative of the president in the congress.

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Inquited about one of the conservative Republicans, Rep. Thomas Massie from Kentucky, Trump excluded.

“I think he is honestly a tribander,” the president continued. “I think he should be elected from the office.”

The extensive 1.116-page package contains Trump's title that promises “a large beautiful bill” and its campaign to extend tax benefits approved during its first term, while new taxes are added to tips, automotive credits and social security.

However, the price increases and the legislator is careful with the upcoming voices, especially if the economy fluctuates with uncertainty.

The committee for a responsible federal budget, an impartial Fiscal Watchdog group, estimates that the house bill will give around 3.3 trillion US dollars over the next decade.

The Republicans, who criticized the measure, argued that the new expenditure and tax reductions of the draft law were available, while the measures to compensate for the costs are charged.

In particular, conservative Republicans want to accelerate the new work requirements that Republicans want to issue for daring participants in Medicaid. They had to start on January 1, 2029, but the GOP majority leader Steve Scalisue said on CNBC that the work requirements for some Medicaid -privileged would begin in early 2027.

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It is expected that at least 7.6 million people take out health insurance as part of the first changes to Medicaid, the referee budget office announced last week.

Republican holding outs also want to reduce the tax breaks for environmentally friendly energy in bidges in bidea-era inflation and have now been approved for projects for renewable energies across the country.

But for every change that Johnson takes into account for the appeasement of the hardworking conservatives, he is to lose support from more traditional and more centrist republicans. Many have registered against letters that protested with deep cuts against medicaid and food aid programs and the return of Clean Energy Tax credits.

At the core, the extensive legislative package extends the existing income tax cuts permanently and bobs the standard deduction and increases it to $ 32,000 for joint filers and the tax credit for children to $ 2,500.

The New Yorkers are fighting for a larger state and local tax deduction that goes beyond the proposal of the law. It looks like it would triple the invoice, which currently has an upper limit for the state and local tax deduction of 10,000 US dollars and increases it to $ 30,000 for common filers with income of up to $ 400,000 per year. You have proposed a deduction of 62,000 US dollars for individual filers and $ 124,000 for common filers.

If the legislation passes the house this week, it would move to the Senate, where the Republicans also have changes in mind.

Darlene Superville and Seung Min Kim, Associated Press Writers, contributed to this report.

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