For all the freaking out over the latest logjam in the House over President Trump’s budget-reconciliation bill, it was an incredibly predictable development.

Late last week, four hard-line House Freedom Caucus members formally blocked the advancement of the bill from the Budget Committee. As it turns out, it was only a temporary setback; after securing some minor concessions, they voted “present” on a reconsideration of the bill late Sunday night, allowing it to go to the Rules Committee, the last stop before a floor vote.

Republicans leaders couldn’t have been happy, but they couldn’t have been surprised either. The tiny GOP margin in the House and the vast breadth of Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” gave multiple Republican factions the leverage to pull a power play to tweak the legislation to their liking. The odds are very high that with enough pressure from President Trump, any GOP rebels will knuckle under. When push comes to shove, they aren’t going to destroy the vehicle for Trump’s entire........

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