President Trump’s legislative agenda is hanging by a thread as House Republican leaders scramble to make last-minute changes to their “big, beautiful bill” and cut deals to appease warring factions of the party.

The latest setback came Friday, when four spending hawks tanked a key vote in the House Budget Committee to advance the legislation as they dug in on demands for further cuts. The failed vote came despite Trump urging GOP lawmakers to “STOP GRANDSTANDING” and unify, and it forced the committee into an extended recess.

The hard-line conservatives on the Budget panel, however, are just the start of leadership’s problem. Top Republicans must also contend with demands from blue-state moderate Republicans to increase the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap, all while trying to meet their self-imposed deadline of getting a package through the chamber by Memorial Day — a goal that is becoming more and more sky-high amid the snafus.

For now, however, leaders are sticking by the plan.

“What we would do is just call the vote again, and I suspect in very near term we will have a resolution, and I’ll get all the votes we need to pass it out of committee,” House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) told reporters after the failed vote.

The next test for the panel will be late Sunday night, when the House Budget Committee is scheduled to reconvene at 10 p.m. EDT to revote on advancing the megabill. After that, it heads to the House Rules Committee — which will make last-minute changes — before hitting the floor and facing the razor-thin GOP majority.

Leadership has its work cut out for it.

In the short-term, top lawmakers have to reach an agreement with the quartet of spending hawks — Reps. Chip Roy (R-Texas), Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) and........

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