Members of the House Freedom Caucus say they will make the case for their preferred policies and strategy when they meet with President-elect Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Friday to discuss his ambitious legislative agenda — bringing preferences that at times clash with those of Trump.

Rep. Barry Moore (R-Ala.), a Freedom Caucus member who will be in attendance, said that the crux of the meeting will be balancing those sometimes-conflicting priorities.

Moore said the members will ask of Trump: “How can we help you achieve what you want to achieve for the country, but at the same time manage for the fiscal conservatives who don't want to raise the debt too high, don't spend too much?”

Congressional Republicans are plotting legislation for Trump’s agenda on the border, energy, tax cuts and other issues — party-line legislation that they aim to push through using a special process called reconciliation, which gives one or two opportunities to bypass the 60-vote threshold in the Senate, thus bypassing the need for Democratic support.

But that will require near-unanimous support from Republicans in the House, where the party has a razor-thin majority, meaning opposition from any few Republicans can hold up the bill. That’s a tactic that the Freedom Caucus has often used in the past to push for more conservative legislation.

There is already tension among Republicans not only about........

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