President Donald Trump spent his first full day in the White House attempting to diffuse a weekslong dispute over how to pass his agenda through Congress, hosting Republican leaders in two separate meetings in the Oval Office.
Trump met privately with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and his Senate counterpart, Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), on Tuesday afternoon, followed by a separate huddle with their entire leadership teams.
The meetings were billed as a strategy session, with the two chambers at odds over whether to sweep Trump’s entire agenda into “one big, beautiful bill,” as he prefers, or break it into two parts.
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In the latter scenario, Congress would consider border and defense legislation first and then renew Trump’s 2017 tax cuts later in the
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