Trump Calls Emergency GOP Summit at White House as Party Rebellion Erupts

Washington burns—and not just from the summer heat. President Trump scrambles to contain a full-blown GOP mutiny, summoning Republican lawmakers for crisis talks behind the White House's gilded doors.

Insiders whisper of fractured alliances as the party's civil war goes thermonuclear. No budgets were harmed in the making of this drama—unlike your 401(k) during last month's crypto flash crash.

Will the Oval Office charm offensive work? Or are we witnessing a political short squeeze where the leverage flips violently against the establishment? Grab your popcorn—this showdown's just getting started.

Freedom caucus members demand bill amendments

Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus were among the first to join the opposition. Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina, who voted against the procedural rule in committee early Wednesday, confirmed he was heading to the White House along with other Freedom Caucus members. 

The group has issues with the Senate’s version of the bill, which they claim veers away from the spending offsets previously agreed upon in the House.

Chairman Andy Harris of Maryland told reporters that without revisions, the group WOULD oppose the procedural vote needed to advance the bill to debate. 

“Hopefully it goes back to Rules, gets moved closer to the House position, and the Senate gets called back into town,” Harris remarked. He was not in support of the Senate’s decision to adjourn, adding that President Trump had asked lawmakers to stay put in Washington until the legislation was resolved.

Despite their objections, Republican leadership has been reluctant to make any revisions to the Senate-passed bill. GOP sources told The Hill that the proposed law has some compromises, but it is more similar to the version the House previously approved. 

Harris insisted that he would not fall in line with the White House pressure, saying, “The White House doesn’t have a voting card.”

Speaker Johnson is ‘talking’ to the divided GOP

House Speaker Mike Johnson met with a group of conservative lawmakers Wednesday morning, including several Freedom Caucus members. 

Heading into the meeting, he told reporters, “We gotta get this done.” After more than 40 minutes, Johnson described the session as “productive” but declined to confirm if the House would proceed with the vote as scheduled. “We’ll see,” he said.

“The best thing is to send the bill back to the Senate,” Norman said, rejecting any promises of future reforms. “I’m done with promises… it’s what the president wants.”.

Moderate Republicans like Representatives Mike Lawler of New York, David Valadao of California, and Dan Newhouse of Washington were seen entering the West Wing Wednesday morning. These centrists are uneasy about proposed Medicaid cuts and the rollback of green energy tax credits, policies that could directly impact their districts.

Over the weekend, Valadao, whose district in California’s Central Valley is a dependent of Medicaid, reckoned that he could not support a final version that slashes provider taxes and funding that is imperative to the state’s hospitals. 

“I support the reasonable provisions in H.R. 1… but I will not support a final bill that eliminates vital funding streams,” he said in a Saturday statement. He reminded his colleagues that Trump had fronted the idea of eliminating waste and fraud, without harming Medicaid.

Valadao and Newhouse are the only two House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump following the January 6 Capitol riot, and are against the tax and spending bill.

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