President Donald Trump wants Republicans to have the bill done by July 4 (Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told reporters on Friday that it was "possible" the deadline could slip, "but I don't want to even accept that as an option right now. We want to try to push this."
The vast tax and immigration bill is currently in the Senate, where lawmakers are still working through several key issues on Medicaid and state and local tax (SALT) deductions among other details.
An earlier version passed the House by just one vote in late May.
Now, several House Republicans are balking at proposed changes in the Senate – though there's still no final product – and warning that the bill could lose their support when it returns to the House.
Rep. Greg Murphy, R-N.C., who leads the Doctors Caucus, told Fox News Digital he had issues with the Senate version's comparably harsher cuts to federal Medicaid funding.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks with reporters about his plans to advance President Donald Trump's spending and tax bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, June 2, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
The Senate is expected to work through the weekend to pass the bill.
Johnson told House Republicans, meanwhile, to be flexible next week when they're expected to be home in their districts. Sources have told Fox News Digital that House GOP leaders have offered varying estimations of when lawmakers will have to be back in Washington, from Tuesday through Thursday.
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And the House is up against at least one real-world deadline: The U.S. is expected to run out of cash to pay its debts by the summer, according to multiple projections. Republicans have made raising the debt limit a priority in the bill.
Trump, for his part, wrote on Truth Social Friday, "The House of Representatives must be ready to send it to my desk before July 4th – We can get it done."
He said during a press conference earlier in the day, "We can go longer, but we'd like to get it done by that time, if possible."
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
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