Once the markup reconvened, House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) said that negotiations over changes to the more than 1,100-page bill are ongoing: “Deliberations continue at this very moment, they will continue on into the week and I suspect right up until the time we put this big, beautiful bill on the floor of the House.”

But Norman told reporters that Republican leaders put their commitments to the GOP holdouts in writing. Those promises, Norman said, include speeding up enforcement of several policies in the bill, including Medicaid work requirements, nixing green energy tax perks enacted during the Biden administration and revoking Medicaid benefits from undocumented immigrants.

Norman, Roy, Brecheen and Clyde all ended up voting “present” Sunday, allowing the bill to clear committee while still expressing continued discontent. In a statement Sunday night, the House Freedom Caucus said that the bill “fails to actually honor our promise to significantly correct the spending trajectory of the federal government” and that the group’s members are “determined and committed to working through the remaining obstacles within this bill.”

House Republican leaders still need to publicly detail possible changes and brief the full House GOP Conference — and their concessions could endanger support among moderate Republicans wary of facilitating a faster ramp-up in Medicaid work requirements and a swifter ending to the green energy tax perks enacted during the Biden administration.

Johnson is planning to meet with the Main Street Caucus on Monday evening. The business-friendly faction includes a group of moderates who requested an audience with the speaker last week to discuss their concerns about Medicaid, SNAP food aid, federal employee pensions and other provisions in the bill they want tweaked before it goes to the Rules Committee and the House floor.

The speaker still hopes to meet his target of passing the megabill by Memorial Day, as GOP leaders in both chambers race to enact President Donald Trump’s boldest campaign promises this summer. Top House Republicans want to put the legislation on the House floor by Thursday, when lawmakers are set to leave for a weeklong recess.

And Republicans are further racing to show progress on the megabill after a trio of brutal economic blows last week — including chaos rippling through the bond market, Moody’s downgrading the U.S. credit rating and Walmart’s announcement it would raise prices amid Trump’s latest tariff regime.

Republican leaders, White House officials and some of the conservative holdouts huddled Sunday afternoon and made progress on the hard-liners’ Medicaid work requirement demands. They also discussed moving up an effort to repeal certain clean energy tax credits contained in the Democrats’ 2022 climate law, and which are benefiting red states and districts — a move leadership hadn’t been willing to entertain previously, enraging hard-liners.

In those talks, GOP leaders listed a $40,000 state-and-local-tax deduction cap for individuals and $80,000 for married couples filing jointly as one of the items they’re working into the final plans — though they’re still looking for ways to pay for it amid talks with a separate group of centrist holdouts from high-tax blue states.

One of the biggest outstanding fights: Hard-liners want to accelerate the timeline for strict Medicaid work requirements for millions of low-income “able-bodied” Americans in the current megabill while removing any waivers for states and further limiting funding to states to help pay for the program.

Trump has been reluctant to approve any moves that can be construed as cutting Medicaid, which many of his own voters in deep red states rely on for health care. GOP leaders have been privately discussing moving up the work requirement start date from 2029 to 2027.

But as private talks between holdouts, White House officials and GOP leaders wore on this weekend, one thing became increasingly clear: “In the end, the president is gonna have to weigh in on where he stands on Medicaid,” said one person involved in the weekend talks.

Johnson’s leadership circle has debated when to ask the White House to invite the various warring groups of House Republicans to the White House so Trump can lean on the remaining rebels. But with a larger group of hard-liners still deeply upset that the bill doesn’t cut enough spending and leaves some of the Biden-era clean energy incentives in place, that strategy comes with its own risks.

“If I get in a room with the president, I’m going to tell him this isn’t what he asked for,” one House GOP lawmaker said.

If House Republican leaders succeed in passage, Republicans in the Senate will then begin working on their own changes in order to build enough GOP support on their side of the Capitol. Republican leaders aim to ultimately clear the package for Trump’s signature in June or July, a tall order given the GOP’s slim margins in both chambers and the magnitude of the legislation.

Besides fulfilling Trump’s campaign-trail tax promises — including no taxes on tips or overtime — the bill would juice military and border security spending by hundreds of billions of dollars, while extending many of the 2017 tax cuts. To offset those costs, the legislation would shrink federal support for safety-net programs like Medicaid and SNAP food assistance, along with ending green tax incentives Democrats enacted during the Biden administration.

Still, Congress’ nonpartisan scorekeeper is expected to conclude that the package as a whole would increase the deficit and grow the federal government’s more than $36 trillion national debt.