House Republicans are falling further apart in negotiations on a reconciliation package that represents President Trump’s first-year legislative agenda, with just weeks to go before their self-imposed deadline.

GOP lawmakers on Wednesday sent conflicting signals on how to cut Medicaid, indicating they were no closer to a deal on one of the biggest points in their internal negotiations.

On another key issue, raising the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap, they lost ground in talks to reach a compromise.

Republicans said they would pass a package Trump has described as his “big beautiful bill” by the Memorial Day recess, which was always seen as an ambitious goal.

With the first full week of May nearly at a close, they appear to have their work cut out for them.

“There’s a lot of different parameters and there’s a lot of different opinions,” said Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.), a member of the SALT Caucus and Ways and Means Committee. “And so we just got to figure it out.”

Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Ways and Means Committee met separately with their respective members on Wednesday to go over the pain points holding up agreements — SALT for Ways and Means, Medicaid for Energy and Commerce.

The co-chairs of the SALT Caucus who want to raise the cap to benefit their constituents in high-tax states — Reps. Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.) and Young Kim (R-Calif.) — joined the Ways and Means meeting to discuss the deduction cap.

But one SALT Caucus member who got a readout, Rep. Nick LaLota (R-N.Y.), gave a dismal assessment: If negotiations were on the........

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