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Representative Andy Ogles personally warned President Mike Johnson not to go ahead Wednesday with a controversial voting essential room to move forward President Donald TrumpThe agenda that had drawn contempt from the right.
After Hours of jamming to convince The republican of Tennessee and a dozen other defectors, Johnson finally forced.
The president scored on this key vote on the budgetary plan of the Senate republicans on Wednesday evening after failing to appease a group of conservatives from the GOP chamber requiring major spending reductions. Now, the leaders of the GOP will spend the coming hours in thorny discussions on how to make more discounts of spending – despite the firm resistance of the Senate to the GOP to any change in their plan.
Trump had spent recent days, even in the midst of his own political calamity in his escalation of the trade war, trying to save the plan. But Wednesday evening, Johnson personally discussed with the president of the need to postpone the senate budgetary vote in order to make concessions to the group.
“He understands it. He supports the process. He wants us to do it well and that we do it well, and sometimes it takes a little more time to do so,” said the speaker about his call with Trump.
Johnson told journalists that there were “different ideas on the table” to guarantee the votes necessary to take the measure Thursday before the house left for a two -week recreation.
“We have a fairly well developed game book and there are a certain number of games and I simply did not make the call on which he is still,” Johnson told journalists on Wednesday after delaying the vote.
The decision to vote, however, attracted the fury of the management team of Johnson, who finally had to comply with the ultra -service after having clearly indicated that they would not move on the controversial budgetary of the party as written. A few hours earlier on Wednesday, Johnson projected confidence: “I think it will pass today.”
Pennsylvania representative Lloyd Smucker, one of the Republican holders, said he was putting pressure on an amendment that would have a binding language for higher spending reductions. An idea is that the budgetary resolution equalizes the size of tax reductions to deficit reduction measures – similar to the idea of Smucker in the house.
Smucker was one of the multiple Republicans who had warned Johnson that his plan did not have the support to pass. They included ogles, who personally warned Johnson not to bring the party’s disputed budgetary measure upstairs.
“It will fail,” said Ogles, telling Johnson about the Senate plan for Trump’s agenda.
Ogles and the other Holdout Republicans challenge Trump on his thrust for a GOP Senate budgetary measure which dates back huge tax reductions and billions of expenses to increase the debt limit – while committing to pay for only $ 4 billion.
Republicans and Ogles refuse to engage in this budgetary plan until their party leaders can guarantee a serious push of reduction in the deficit, including the Senate. While the fierce operation of Whip of Trump and GOP leaders has limited some of these defections – against up to 50 members earlier this week – Johnson still faces a huge voting problem with his own conference when he tries to pass the measure of the Senate on Wednesday evening.
The tension within the GOP conference is largely addressed to the Capitol in the Senate, which is much more delicate on the major expense reductions than the more conservative house.
“I trust the president, but I don’t trust the Senate. They are a key element in this conversation,” said Ogles.
In recent days, Trump has perhaps made the strongest argument of his presidency so far to host the Republicans to support the measure. He personally summoned a group of republicans to the White House for meetings, while dozens of others have received calls from his senior advisers.
During the meetings on the hill in the last 48 hours, the deputy secretary of the Trump Treasury urged the GOP legislators to support the measure, while separately, the deputy chief of staff of Trump for the Stephen Miller policy launched potential for future discounts during a meeting with the republicans of the Chamber, according to people familiar with the discussions. Johnson himself sat with the Caucus Freedom meeting on Monday evening, which led to a tense discussion on the budget.
“We want everyone to be rediscovered the possibility of making the reconciliation package, where the rubber meets the road,” said representative Kevin Hern, who heads the GOP GOP GOP.
But the representative Rich McCormick, who said that he was “undecided” on the budgetary plan, estimated that 15 other colleagues are firmly opposed at the moment.
“There is a factor of trust that has been betrayed in recent history, so we are all a bit suspicious of this negotiation process. Not that the president lies in us, but that the Senate will drive and in one way or another, people who do not want to significantly reduce a means of continuing expenses at the level,” said McCormick.
Last month, the Georgia Republican had to be personally convinced to vote for the president’s bill to finance the government until September 30. He remembers having sat during meetings where they discussed the means to fight against federal spending – but then, as he remembers now, “we did nothing.”
“If you continue to shoot football from when I kicks, you will eventually be wary a little,” McCormick told CNN of his hesitation to put himself online.
This choir of conservatives of the Chamber who require these large cuts in the context of Trump’s domestic policy, however, fails to force the Senate’s hand.
The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, defended his room’s decision to undertake not to do more than $ 4 billion in his package, even if he recognizes that it was a huge point to stick for the Conservatives.
“It is a kind of characteristic of the way we write them to comply with the Byrd rule. A large part is just in a way of speaking different languages, but we understand where they come from and try to solve this problem and make sure that everyone is comfortable with the future,” said Thune on Wednesday.
This title and this story have been updated with additional developments.
Manu Raju de CNN, Haley Talbot, Morgan Rimmer and Veronica Stracqualursi contributed to this report.