{"id":10091,"date":"2025-06-09T20:01:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thune-and-johnson-meet-with-trump-as-megabill-fights-linger\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T20:01:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:01:51","slug":"thune-and-johnson-meet-with-trump-as-megabill-fights-linger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thune-and-johnson-meet-with-trump-as-megabill-fights-linger\/","title":{"rendered":"Thune and Johnson meet with Trump as megabill fights linger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Top Republican congressional leaders met separately with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday as they try to finalize the &#8220;big, beautiful bill&#8221; before a self-imposed July 4 deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune met in private with Trump, according to a person granted anonymity to describe the undisclosed event, as Senate Republicans strain to settle several tricky provisions involving Medicaid, the state-and-local-tax deduction, key Trump tax priorities and more.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Mike Johnson, Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.) and other GOP lawmakers later attended a White House event with Trump touting key tax provisions of the House-passed tax bill. They include a tax exemption for tips \u2014 something Senate Republicans are considering scaling down in order to fit in other business tax extensions and other Senate-side priorities.<\/p>\n<p>Thune met with Senate Finance Chair Mike Crapo after returning to the Capitol. The tight-lipped Idaho Republican declined to discuss when he might have his piece of the bill ready but acknowledged that a key priority for many Senate Republicans \u2014 making certain business tax incentives permanent \u2014 is a &#8220;work in progress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thune could head back to the White House for more meetings this week. He&#8217;s also in close contact with Johnson, who said at the White House event Monday that he talked with Thune on Sunday night and his message to Senate remains &#8220;don&#8217;t modify it too much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Republican congressional leaders met separately with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday as they try to finalize the &#8220;big, beautiful bill&#8221; before a self-imposed July 4 deadline. Senate Majority Leader John Thune met in private with Trump, according to a person granted anonymity to describe the undisclosed event, as Senate Republicans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}