{"id":8113,"date":"2025-04-09T12:06:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T12:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-trumps-big-test\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T12:06:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T12:06:51","slug":"capitol-agenda-trumps-big-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-trumps-big-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol agenda: Trump’s big test"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump is ratcheting up pressure on House Republicans to get going on a budget vote, with dozens opposing the plan or undecided. But things are looking dicey.<\/p>\n

After a White House meeting failed to seal the deal, Trump tried one more time at Tuesday evening\u2019s NRCC dinner. It came as House GOP leaders pushed hard to set up Wednesday’s 8:45 a.m. Rules Committee meeting to start advancing the budget resolution.<\/p>\n

\u201cClose your eyes and get there,\u201d Trump said Tuesday night. \u201cStop grandstanding.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Trump bearing down, Speaker Mike Johnson is facing one of the biggest internal revolts so far this year<\/a>. He only has a couple days to turn things around before members leave town for a two-week recess and potentially rob Trump of a win as he faces a global backlash over his \u201cLiberation Day\u201d tariffs. While we\u2019ve seen conservatives defy Johnson before, this time deficit hawks across the conference are digging in to get deeper cuts to federal spending.<\/p>\n

Trump may have made things harder for Johnson Tuesday. After meeting with holdouts at the White House, Trump declared on Truth Social that he hoped for spending cuts \u201cin excess of $1 Trillion Dollars\u201d \u2013 a number that isn\u2019t going to fly with House fiscal hawks looking for more.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m right now a no unless I can be convinced that the Senate actually means that they would cut $1.5 or 2 trillion in spending,\u201d Rep. Eric Burlison told Blue Light News.<\/p>\n

What else we’re watching: <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u2013 Amid the tariff turmoil<\/b>: House Republicans will get their crack at U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer today when he heads before Ways and Means at 10 a.m. GOP Rep. Nicole Malliotakis said she\u2019ll press for answers on the progress Trump is making toward cutting deals with other countries. But Trump said Tuesday night that \u201cwe don\u2019t necessarily want to make a deal with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 Meta under fire<\/b>: Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former director of global public policy at Facebook, will testify this morning that Meta company executives lied about their involvement with China and willingness to censor on their sites. Meta has pushed back on these claims. Senators are set to press her on Meta\u2019s work to develop a presence in China.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Crypto coming up<\/b>: House Financial Services and Agriculture are having separate hearings today on crypto legislation that would revamp regulation of digital asset trading. House Financial Services Chair French Hill says: “You\u2019ll see us use the next few weeks as a way to listen to stakeholders, get feedback from the administration.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meredith Lee Hill contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump is ratcheting up pressure on House Republicans to get going on a budget vote, with dozens opposing the plan or undecided. But things are looking dicey. After a White House meeting failed to seal the deal, Trump tried one more time at Tuesday evening\u2019s NRCC dinner. It came as House GOP leaders […]<\/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-8113","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\/8113","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=8113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}