President Donald Trump is increasing the pressure on the Republicans to obtain his tax and expenses bill in the finish line.
Several Republicans of the House of Representatives arrived the White House on Wednesday morning for meetings while the president presses his party to approve the radical legislation, a centerpiece of the Trump’s second mandate agenda.
Vice President JD Vance, who cast the vote vote to obtain the bill in the Senate, was also seen in the White House.
An administration official said that the White House is organizing multiple meetings on Wednesday with Republicans in the White House complex. The president is expected to be directly involved with the members throughout the day.
Some of the legislators seen were the representatives of the Republican Party Jeff Van Drew, Rob Bresnahan, Dusty Johnson, Dan Newhouse, Mike Lawler and Andrew Garbarino.
President Donald Trump talks to the press aboard Air Force One while traveling from Ochopee, Florida, to the joint base Andrews, Maryland, on July 1, 2025.
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These legislators are part of the Main Street Caucus, a group of legislators who announce themselves as “pragmatic” conservatives focused on doing things.
President Trump does not have public events on Wednesday.
To try to calm the republican concerns regarding the medicaid cuts of the bill, Dr. Mehmet Oz was also in the White House during the meeting of President Trump and Vance with the Republicans of the Chamber, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Dr. Oz was seen on the White House campus.
Dr. Oz also received a call earlier this week with the Republicans of the House of Representatives who expressed concern about the cuts of funds to the hospitals, according to the familiar source with his visit to the White House and another source familiar with the call. During that call, Dr. Oz mentioned that Republicans should analyze the finances of those hospitals, the sources said. The Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to a request for comments.
Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Medicare and Medicaid service centers, speaks during a press conference on the application of medical care fraud in the Washington Department of Justice, on June 30, 2025.
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Trump previously told the correspondent of the Chief of the White House of ABC News, Mary Bruce, who believed that things would be “easier” in the camera than the Senate with respect to the Megabill, but several changes made by the Senate have angered some Republican intransigent in the camera.
The leader of the majority of the House of Representatives, Steve Scalise, speaking with journalists at Capitol Hill, questioned whether the house could spend the Megabill on Wednesday, but said Trump was helping on that forehead.
Asked by ABC News if you feel that Republicans have less votes necessary for the passage, Scalise recognized the path full of potholes both in the past and in the future.
“We have still had many members who had questions about the changes made by the Senate. That’s expected,” said Scalise.
The leader of the majority added: “When you talk to the members, there are some who are still waiting for something different, but at the end of the day, they know that this is probably as good as we will.”
Scalise said that republican leadership is meeting with small groups of members who have not closed their support, and that the president is also helping today as his “best close.”
“He is talking with individual members,” Scalise said about President Trump. “Even when the bill was in the Senate, it had some individual members who wanted some changes in the Senate calling the president to help his support for these changes, and some of those changes were implemented. Then, you know, the president, from the first day, has been our closest, and he will continue to finish today.”
Trump also continued an online pressure campaign, publishing in his conservative social media site several times on Wednesday.
“The Republicans do not let the radical democrats left you,” Trump wrote this morning. “We have all the letters and we will use them. Last year, the United States was a ‘dead’ nation, without hope for the future, and now it is the ‘hottest nation in the world!’ Make the United States great again! “
