President Donald Trump is pushing Republicans to get his bill over the line by the Fourth of July. (Brendan SmialowskiAFP via Getty Images)
Congressional leaders have said they've been in near-constant contact with Trump or his White House staff about the legislation. Indeed, numerous White House officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Vice President JD Vance, to push Senate Republicans to stay on course.
But some House Republicans want him to be as forceful as he was when their chamber passed the bill by just one vote in May. Trump summoned multiple groups of Republicans to the White House on several occasions in the lead-up to that vote, and even made a rare trip to Capitol Hill to gin up support within the House GOP.
Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., told Fox News Digital that when the House was going through the motions of advancing the mammoth legislation, it "looked all but impossible" to get it across the finish line.
But it was because of Trump, he said, that the bill succeeded.
"He's our closer in the bullpen right now," he said. "His arm is getting warmed up, and we'll bring him in here in the ninth inning, and he's going to throw heat. And so far, he's pitched a no-hitter."
It's worth noting that several senators who have expressed concerns about the bill have spoken individually with Trump.
Senator Rick Scott said, 'I'm not voting for something unless I know what I'm voting on.' (Reuters)
"It doesn't matter what he says, of course not," Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital. "I mean, I'm not voting for something unless I know what I'm voting on."
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Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., wouldn’t say whether he believed that Trump should put a finger on the scales more. But he told Fox News Digital that he was appreciative of the effort that Thune and Senate Finance Committee Chair Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, had put into getting feedback from Senate Republicans, but said that at a certain point, lawmakers just needed to vote on the bill.
"We have cussed and discussed this bill for a long, long time, and at some point you move from careful, rational deliberation into the foothills of jackassery," Kennedy said. "And that's where we are now. It's time to vote. If people are unhappy, they can offer amendments."
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment.
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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