Trump presses the Republicans of the Republicans of Republicans

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President Donald Trump sent the Republicans of the Republicans a blunt message on Tuesday morning: stop negotiating and prefer his massive legislative template for domestic policy.

According to the sources in the room, the message was directed to the meat on the right-wing freedom chew and a group of northeastern legislators who make the demand to change the comprehensive tax and expenditure cuts.

Trump made a rare, personal appearance on the Capitol Hill and argued that the Republicans are “enormously united”, although party struggles were founded in the legislative package. The legislator emerged from the meeting with closed doors with different views whether the president had done enough to convince them to send them to the Senate this week.

“No, we are still a way away, but we can get there,” said Andy Harris, chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, a conservative who asked for more time to work through negotiations.

Although Trump reporters said that the meeting on Tuesday morning was “just a PEP discussion”, the missions are high. This is Trump's first personal meeting with the entire group of House Republicans since the conference that started his agenda with the outcome of the agenda.

And the meeting comes at a critical time for the spokesman for the house, Mike Johnson, who, despite the considerable opposition of some of his members, said goodbye to the legislative package before the memorial day.

“This is a big week for his agenda for all of us. We have been working on reconciliation for more than a year as you all know, and everything depends on these details,” said Johnson before the meeting.

“And I think the President will all encourage this morning, to be in harmony and to do the voices. We have to deliver this to the American people.”

The main priority of the President on Tuesday is to urge his party to prevent the dispute and to move the most important legislation, which contains its core promises from the campaign path, told the CNN White House before the meeting.

From Trump's point of view, the officials said that he had managed to get what he wanted. Trump's campaign -driven goals to achieve comprehensive tax cuts, and no taxes on tips and overtime are what the president is most interested in, and the rest simply negotiates up to the finish line.

The director of the National Economic Council Kevin Hassett told CNN at the beginning of this month that the top priorities of the President were “communicated, and I did not see that someone suggested that they will not be in the law”. He added that Trump “understands that the final legislation will ultimately contain some priorities of members of the house and the Senate.”

Trump has a monumental task in front of him to bring the party's political groups together. With a slim majority in the house, which leaves little space for critics, the president's attempt to influence important holdout.

From Tuesday morning, Trump had not directly checked the coordination of individual members, the officials said, although some of his adjutants were closely involved in the negotiations behind the scenes.

“The white house is not yet freaking out yet,” a person near Trump told CNN. “The president has already been on this street. He and the team understand that searching for an invoice for this size will take some time. The key starts the watch.”

And Trump was Stumpf with legislators in relation to important issues and, according to two sources in the room, informed the conference that he “did not deal with Medicaid”.

The president's warning not to touch the program, except for garbage fraud and abuse, comes because there was a big question of how many Americans would lose access to Medicaid services as part of the proposed package of the Republicans.

Steve Scalisene, the majority leader of the house, said on Tuesday morning that Trump was “getting closer”, and the president met with the conference to discuss the legislative package “as a whole”.

“The president wanted to come and, they know, only talked to the members once again. The president was very committed and practically in this whole process. He called members directly, he spoke some of us in the White House a few times to talk about different parts of this calculation, so we were not surprised when he said:”

Despite a push of some in the party to delay the full debate about the package until the adhesive points are solved, Scalisue said that the GOP management plan should still hold a full house vote on Wednesday or Thursday.

On Monday, Harris rejected Johnson's move to say goodbye to the package before the house goes to the Memorial Day break.

“I think it's pretty obvious that they need more time,” said the Republican in Maryland on Monday evening. “These are complicated discussions. These are complicated problems. These are trillion dollars.”

Rep. Chip Roy, another GOP ultra -conservative, also said on Monday that he did not agree to Johnson's day of commemoration and called it “arbitrarily” to put pressure on the legislator.

“They try to lead it through the Jet vapors and I just don't agree with it,” said the Texas Republican. “I will continue to work in good faith to try to make the bill as best as possible and then decide where things are. I think we shouldn't do business that way.”

The main embroidery points remain unresolved

But it's not just conservatives that are frustrated by Johnson's strategy. The spokesman also works to win some of his party's moderate wing, a group that threatens to oppose the legislative template without a large state and local tax benefits – deteriorate the conservatives.

Trump repeated his message to the conference on Tuesday that democratic governors are responsible for high state and local taxes, and, according to a person, they have to deal with it. The president did not sound particularly warm to fight for salt, said the person and another source.

Two important New York Republicans, who underlined the tension about tax supply, made it clear when they went into the meeting that they were not satisfied with the recent GOP leader's offer to increase the salt cap.

Rep. Mike Lawler described the offer “inadequate” and the New York Nick Lalota, the offer “does not do it for the Salz -Caucus”.

In an exchange during the meeting, a source in the room said that Lawler had made his case due to a higher salt cap. But Trump's message In return, it was clear: it is time to stop having stop and advance with the vote.

The conservative MP Tim Burchett from Tennessee, who said after the meeting he was closer, if not yet full and supports the bill that he was concerned about the increase in the law on salt tax. He also wants to see “sufficient” work requirements for Medicaid advantages in order to “eliminate the fraud”.

In the meantime, Rep. Thomas Massie from Kentucky described the existence of the White House that the important political legislation would not increase the US deficit.

“Is Russ that says that? [trillion] more than usual to 5 trillion US dollars, ”said the conservative hardliner.

When asked whether he takes care of the pressure to support the draft law in such a way that it looks like it, Massie said: “You wrote down my voice weeks ago.”

The dissatisfaction of some in the party comes when the leadership of House GOP tries to bring the draft law to the House Rules Committee on Wednesday at 1 a.m.

This story and heading were updated on Tuesday with additional developments.

CNNS Sarah Ferris, Annie Grayer, Morgan Rimmer and Alison Main contributed to this report.