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House Republican leaders are planning to accelerate new Medicaid work requirements to December 2026 in a deal with ultra-conservatives on the giant tax bill, according to a lawmaker familiar with the discussions.The revised version of President Donald Trump’s economic package — slated to be released publicly Wednesday — calls to move up work requirements to December 2026 from 2029, the lawmaker said, who requested anonymity to discuss private talks.Work requirements have been a sticking point in reaching agreement on Trump’s tax bill, as Speaker Mike Johnson attempts to navigate a narrow and fractious majority.The December 2026 deadline could also become…

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Republicans have reached an agreement to increase the state and local tax deduction to $40,000, suggesting a resolution to one of the final issues holding up President Donald Trump’s economic bill. “That is the agreement we came to,” Johnson told CNN Wednesday, in response to a question about raising the deduction cap to $40,000 from $10,000 for a decade.”I think the SALT caucus, as they call themselves, it’s not everything they wanted, but I think they know what a huge improvement that is for their constituents and it gives them a lot to go home and…

Conservative hardliners threatened to block Republicans’ massive tax and spending package, jeopardizing passage of President Donald Trump’s signature economic legislation.Ultraconservatives lashed out shortly after House Speaker Mike Johnson announced he had an agreement with lawmakers from high-tax states to increase the limit on the deduction for state local taxes to $40,000.Several hardline Republicans said House GOP leaders aren’t honoring concessions the White House promised them.Ultraconservative Representative Andy Harris of Maryland said Wednesday morning the Trump administration promised them in a “midnight deal” deeper cuts in Medicaid and faster elimination of Biden-era clean energy tax breaks.”I’m sorry, but that’s a pay…

WASHINGTON — Thirteen House Republicans who voted for President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” sent a letter Friday urging Senate GOP leaders to scale back some of its clean energy cuts, sparking pushback from conservative hard-liners.The unusual criticism of their own bill indicates a modicum of regret by the GOP lawmakers, whose votes were critical to the bill passing the House by a narrow margin last month.“While we were proud to have worked to ensure that the bill did not include a full repeal of the clean energy tax credits, we remain deeply concerned by several provisions,” said the Republicans…

WASHINGTON — Elon Musk broke with President Donald Trump on the House-passed domestic policy bill, saying in an interview that he was “disappointed” that it would increase the federal deficit. “I was, like, disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decrease it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing,” Musk told CBS’ “Sunday Morning” in an interview that will air in full this Sunday.Musk’s public break comes as the Republicans’ bill heads to the Senate, where several senators have also criticized the legislation for increasing the deficit. The legislative…