House Republicans are working to give their “big beautiful bill” a face lift as they try to appease warring factions of the party in hopes of sending President Trump’s legislative agenda to the Senate before Memorial Day.

The broad outline of the megabill is already set, with committees completing advancement of all 11 portions of the sprawling bill in marathon markups this week.

The legislation includes an extension of the tax cuts Trump signed into law in 2017; doing away with taxes on tips and overtime pay; implementing new work Medicaid work requirements on “able-bodied” adults that are projected to result in millions losing health coverage; repealing green energy tax credits that Democrats enacted in 2022; and making states share the cost of food assistance for the first time, among other provisions.

There are, however, plenty of gripes that are complicating the bill’s path in the razor-thin majority, since no Democrats will support the bill. Moderate Republicans are holding out for a bigger blue-state tax break, while fiscal hawks are disappointed with Medicaid cuts not going far enough and are demanding that the reforms be put in place sooner — complaints that are stalling progress on the party’s measure.

On Friday, a group of fiscal hawks tanked a key committee vote on the measure in the latest sign of the difficulty of finding consensus.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) acknowledged this week that changes were being negotiated between the party’s various corners, explaining that alterations that increase the fiscal impact in one area would require turning the “dials” up in “savings” elsewhere to meet the legislation’s deficit targets — a dynamic that makes for a delicate balancing act.

“If you do more on SALT, you have to find more in savings,” Johnson said, referring to the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap. “So these are the dials, the metaphorical dials I’m talking about.”

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