Trump to Congress: 'NO ONE GOES ON VACATION' until spending bill passes

President Donald Trump connected Tuesday ramped up his unit connected Congress to get his "big, beauteous bill" crossed the decorativeness line, urging lawmakers to not spell connected abrogation until it passes.

"To my friends successful the Senate, fastener yourself successful a country if you must, don't spell home, and GET THE DEAL DONE THIS WEEK," helium wrote connected Truth Social.

"Work with the House truthful they tin prime it up, and walk it, IMMEDIATELY. NO ONE GOES ON VACATION UNTIL IT'S DONE," helium continued.

Trump's demands travel arsenic the measure inactive faces an uphill ascent up of Republicans' self-imposed July 4 deadline, arsenic persistent argumentation clashes proceed to disagreement Senate Republicans — and questions stay implicit whether the House volition yet judge the Senate mentation of the megabill.

The measure is presently with the precocious chamber, wherever Senate Majority Leader John Thune insisted Monday that he's pushing up with a ballot this week, adjacent arsenic immoderate GOP lawmakers proceed to balk astatine cardinal provisions, specified arsenic its interaction connected the federal deficits and the state-and-local-tax deduction cap, oregon SALT.

In different stroke to the bill's prospects, the Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, has ordered the removal of immoderate cardinal elements successful the bill.

MacDonough said immoderate provisions violated a regularisation that allows fund provisions to walk with a elemental majority, alternatively of the accepted 60-vote threshold. Given Republicans' 53-member bulk successful the Senate, they are relying connected the fund regularisation process, known arsenic reconciliation, to get the measure passed.

Now, Senate Republicans are scrambling to rewrite the measure to comply with MacDonough's rulings, guarantee that it tin walk the House and besides triumph implicit their ain GOP skeptics.

For instance, connected 1 peculiar sticking point, Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., has held talks with House Republicans connected the SALT cap, POLITICO reports, which was acceptable astatine $40,000 successful the House bill.

Even arsenic Republicans are feeling the clip crunch, GOP leaders is projecting assurance that they volition walk the measure earlier the July 4 holiday.

"The July 4 deadline is an important one. The president is insistent astir it," House Spekaer Mike Johnson said Tuesday connected Fox News Channel.

"I person been from the precise beginning, and I deliberation we tin get this occupation done. I stay precise optimistic that we will," helium added.