Republicans officially reached the hard part of the effort to pass a budget plan addressing several of President Donald Trump's top priorities this week.
In the House of Representatives, markups took place on Tuesday for two of the main parts of the "big beautiful bill" Trump wants Congress to pass as one massive package.
The Energy and Commerce Committee's bill, set to be a key part of that package, is home to the reforms to Medicaid Republicans are eyeing to bring home savings of nearly $1trn over a decade.
Those reforms are likely to include work requirements, state eligibility verification measures, and limits on medical provider taxes at the state level.
On the Ways and Means Committee, lawmakers met Tuesday to discuss the tax portion of the legislation. Republicans are hoping to extend as much of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
A third committee, Agriculture, is also set to begin a late-night markup Tuesday evening.
Tonight in Inside Washington we're looking at the various factions Mike Johnson and John Thune will have to wrangle (with Donald Trump's help) to pass this massive reconciliation package.
Those groups include deficit hawks who want larger cuts to Medicaid, populists and vulnerable Republicans who are resisting those cuts, as well as a group of lawmakers eager to see the cap on state and local tax (SALT) deductions hiked — or scrapped entirely.
One other faction of potential opposition emerged on Tuesday at a closed-door meeting of House Republicans.
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