They know it’s going to be big. They want it to be beautiful. Now congressional Republicans need to decide what’s going to be in it — and they’re confronting the very real possibility they might not be able to figure it out.

A Thursday House vote might have finalized a fiscal framework for the GOP’s domestic policy megabill, but completing that intermediate step exposed huge fissures between the House and Senate over a range of issues crucial to finishing the sprawling legislation that’s expected to span tax cuts, border security, energy and more.

House Republicans narrowly approved the blueprint for President Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” after a late push by party leaders won over some holdouts who had worried that the plan doesn’t force deep enough spending cuts.

House Republicans scrapped a vote to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda after it was clear Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) did not have the GOP support needed to pass it on Wednesday night.

After huddling with a band of fiscal hawks who want a guarantee on deeper spending cuts, Johnson emerged from the meeting telling reporters they will aim to try again on Thursday.

House Speaker Mike Johnson was forced to postpone a scheduled Wednesday vote on a plan that will serve as a vehicle for legislation to extend President Trump’s tax cuts before they expire at the end of the year. Hours of arm-twisting could not convince a contingent of House Republicans, concerned about mounting debt, to go along with a Senate-passed resolution with a low floor for spending cuts. They are right to resist.

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.

The U.S. Senate on Friday was set to start a marathon session aimed at eventually handing Republican President Donald Trump sweeping legislation to extend tax cuts and achieve budget reductions in the face of staunch Democratic opposition.

Late on Thursday, the Senate narrowly voted to open debate on a budget blueprint for the fiscal year beginning on October 1. The 52-48 vote was needed to unlock a fast-track procedure for pole-vaulting the costly tax cuts over blockades that Democrats normally could erect in opposition to the legislation...

The mayors of four sanctuary cities appearing before the Republican-led Committee On Oversight and Government Reform on Wednesday could be risking the loss of billions in federal funding for what GOP leaders refer to as a lack of cooperation with federal immigration enforcement efforts.

The committee’s chairman, U.S. Rep. James Comer, a Kentucky Republican, maintained state and local governments that refuse to comply with immigration enforcement “should not receive a penny of federal funding.”

Palantir Technologies Inc. shares fell 10% on Wednesday, and continued to slide in after-hours trading, following a report that US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked officials for plans on how to slash military spending.

Palantir, which has seen its stock soar by almost 50% this year, is a major US defense contractor. It also sells technology and artificial intelligence products to other allied governments and private companies...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is once again grappling with persistent right-wing defectors ahead of a key budget vote that could come as soon as Tuesday evening.

Why it matters: The vote on a budget resolution is the critical first step towards passing the massive fiscal bill that President Trump has put forth.

"Every time we've had a big vote on the House floor, we're talking to members all the way up until the moment the vote closes," House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) said at a press conference.

Republicans squeaked their budget blueprint through the House late Tuesday after party leaders swayed a handful of wavering members to back the framework for President Trump’s tax, border and spending-cut agenda.