House Republican leaders canceled a vote on the Senate’s budget resolution Wednesday night, as Speaker Mike Johnson came to terms with what had been clear for many hours: Too many Republicans would vote in opposition and the measure was bound to fail.

House GOP leaders continued to meet with holdouts late Wednesday and are considering tweaks to get fiscal hawks on board with the budget framework essential to passing President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda. But the outcome is a brutal blow for House GOP leaders and the president, who have spent days trying to wrangle the votes for the fiscal blueprint.

The canceled vote followed hours of suspense, as more than a dozen holdouts met off the floor with Johnson and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise while a vote on a completely separate measure was held open for well over an hour. The evening votes had already been delayed as the House hard-liners were busy back-channeling with Senate Republicans to sketch out deeper spending cuts.

“I just got off the phone with President Trump. And he wants us to get it done. But we’re going to rework things,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) told reporters as she left the meeting with House leaders that prompted the decision to call off the vote.