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President Donald Trump often seems like the sun around which other Republicans orbit, setting their direction and movements — and, every so often, slingshotting one out of his solar system when they displease him.
President Donald Trump summoned members of a key wing of the Republican Party to the White House Wednesday, as they threaten to defy GOP leaders and prevent his agenda from advancing out of the House this week.
House Republicans worked through the night and met with Trump to move a megabill advancing the president's legislative agenda through a key committee.
Trump is holding a White House meeting with Republican holdouts on his "big beautiful bill." Newsweek's live blog is closed.
Trump has shied away from threatening Medicaid cuts outright due to the onslaught of disagreement from many of his own MAGA supporters. On Tuesday, he visited Capitol Hill urging Republicans to immediately unite behind the bill and assured them that he was focused on “saving” Medicaid.