A group of House Republicans met with President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday as GOP leadership

Johnson, 52, is bringing Noa Argamani, who endured 246 days in Hamas captivity, and key administration officials to observe the president’s speech to a joint session of both chambers of

Ten Democrats sided with the speaker’s censure of Representative Al Green. The shameful act was diminished by colleagues supporting him singing “We Shall Overcome” on the House floor.

The proposal includes $4.5 trillion in tax breaks and $2 trillion in spending cuts. It kick-starts a weeks-long process to draft the details and merge it with the Senate's package. But some say hitting those targets will mean cuts to Medicaid and other programs and services.

Republicans are pitching the strategy as a way of avoiding a politically damaging shutdown fight while giving President Trump more power to go around Congress and set funding levels himself.