Senate Republicans scramble to resolve tense divisions as Trump threatens their vacation over his big bill

GOP leaders are hoping to vote on the legislation this week, but they still need to work through key issues across both chambers on Medicaid, clean energy and SALT.

WASHINGTON — The Senate bill’s Medicaid cuts are too aggressive for politically vulnerable Republicans.

Its clean energy funding cuts are too tame for conservative House Republicans, who are threatening to sink the legislation.

And the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions, or SALT, is a nonstarter for key blue-state House Republicans.

The GOP-led Congress is barreling toward its own deadline to pass the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” and it’s getting messy in the final stretch as President Donald Trump ramps up the pressure on lawmakers to put it on his desk by July 4.

“To my friends in the Senate, lock yourself in a room if you must, don’t go home, and GET THE DEAL DONE THIS WEEK,” Trump wrote Tuesday on Truth Social. “Work with the House so they can pick it up, and pass it, IMMEDIATELY. NO ONE GOES ON VACATION UNTIL IT’S DONE.”