House GOP leadership is counting on the White House to bear the brunt of the effort to sway hard-line members of the House Freedom Caucus who are threatening to vote against the Republican megabill.
“The sense is the White House needs to deliver the Freedom Caucus — that’s the project of the day,” said one person close to leadership, granted anonymity to discuss internal thinking.
The House conservatives are concerned that the Senate-passed legislation would add, according to their estimates, more than $600 billion to the deficit as compared to the bill most of them supported in May. The Senate version, they argue, violates a House budget…
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