Members of the House Freedom Caucus staked out strong opposition to the Senate-passed version of the “one big, beautiful bill” of President Trump’s tax and spending priorities on Wednesday, threatening to derail the megabill unless the House made further changes.

All of them flipped their positions by the wee hours of Thursday, after hours of conversations with Trump and administration officials about how the bill would be implemented and other executive actions Trump could take. That flipping of votes ushered the bill to Trump’s desk without making any changes to the text.

But they are insisting that they did not fold.

“Six months ago, we were being told we'd be lucky to get $300 billion in savings,” said Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), policy chair of the Freedom Caucus and perhaps the most vocal of the group’s members. “We kind of threw down, and we're fiscal hawks, and we got $1.6 trillion in mandatory spending, which historic — has never happened.”

“I'll put our effectiveness up against anyone if they want to match up scorecards,” Roy said.

Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.), the chair of the caucus, had warned early Wednesday that members of his group and........

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