Live updates: Johnson races to win over holdouts on Trump budget blueprint, China tariff war escalates



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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is racing to get House Republicans behind a Senate-passed framework for enacting large swaths of President Trump’s domestic agenda, even as conservative opposition to the measure grows.

House Republicans are set to meet this morning for the first time since the Senate released and passed the budget blueprint last week.

In the Senate, lawmakers are set to hold a final confirmation vote on Elbridge Colby, Trump’s controversial pick to serve as the Defense Department under secretary for policy.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration is vehemently defending the president’s sweeping tariffs announced last week, even as business allies — and even some GOP lawmakers — become increasingly unsettled and markets tumble.

The White House is set to hold a press briefing at 1 p.m. and Trump is expected to sign an executive order on energy this afternoon.

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