The House Budget Committee is charging ahead with a key vote on the party’s package combining President Trump’s legislative priorities — even as a cohort of hard-line conservatives are vowing to block it from moving forward.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said the panel not only will meet on Friday to compile the various pieces of Trump’s domestic agenda, but he predicted it will pass.

“We're having a Budget Committee meeting tomorrow. That's the plan,” Johnson told reporters. “It'll get out of Budget. I'm confident.”

Standing in his way, however, are at least two GOP members of that committee — Reps. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) and Chip Roy (R-Texas) — who had huddled with Johnson in a cloakroom just off the chamber floor Thursday evening and told the Speaker they intend to vote no on the legislation in its current form.

"Chip and I are voting against it. And all the Democrats are going to vote against it,” Norman said afterward. “You've got to have a good product, and the deficit — we're not here to add to the deficit. And this does nothing to do that."

Given the current partisan ratio on the Budget Committee — and an absence from Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas), who........

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