President Trump hosted House Republicans at the White House on Wednesday as he tried to cajole ideologically diverse G.O.P. lawmakers to get behind his sprawling domestic policy bill.
After the bill passed the Senate on Tuesday, Mr. Trump amped up the pressure on House Republicans to deliver the legislation to him by Friday. But the president was facing deep divisions in his party over the bill, and he could afford to lose only a handful of votes.
The bill, a signature Republican piece of legislation to enact his domestic agenda, would cut trillions of dollars in taxes, increase funding for defense and border security, and make steep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance for the poor.
Republican divisions over the version of the bill that passed the Senate on Tuesday have been deep. Mr. Trump met on Wednesday with groups of lawmakers that have raised dueling concerns: the House Freedom Caucus, whose members have assailed the Senate version of the bill for adding too much to the deficit, and some moderate Republicans who have raised concerns about the cuts to the social safety net.
Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana, was also at the White House on Wednesday, a White House official said.
Tyler Pager is a White House correspondent for The Times, covering President Trump and his administration.
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