One day after the president’s “Big Beautiful” reconciliation bill squeaked through the Senate, thanks to a tie-breaking vote from Vice President JD Vance, the White House is confronted with a series of new legislative challenges in the lower chamber.

As of this afternoon, Republicans are stalled on the House floor as leadership tries to wrangle support for a procedural vote that would set up a final vote for later Wednesday night or Thursday morning.

As expected, moderates are extremely frustrated with the Senate GOP’s changes to the bill’s Medicaid provisions and fiscal hawks are furious that the new legislation waters down the House version’s clean-energy tax credit language, modest entitlement reforms, and remittance-tax language. Deficit-concerned House Freedom Caucus Republicans outlined their list of complaints in a three-page long memo released earlier today highlighting specific programs.

The House Freedom Caucus memo points out the Senate bill’s impact on the deficit and failure to fully repeal the “Green New Scam” of Biden-era green energy tax credits. The memo notes that the Senate bill will not prevent taxpayers from funding transgender operations and abortions. Planned Parenthood will be defunded in the Senate bill, but for only one year instead of ten.

The Republican hardliners also criticized the Senate bill for stripping out penalties meant to prevent illegal immigrants from accessing Medicaid, and its $40,000 state and local tax deduction cap, which was also in the House-passed version of the bill.

House Republicans teed up several votes Wednesday including a vote on a key rule for advancing the “big, beautiful” budget bill. When the votes began, 16 Republicans were not present to cast votes. President Trump met privately with the holdouts to push them towards voting for the rule and supporting the bill.

Trump has self-imposed a July 4 deadline for the massive budget package and Republicans are scrambling to meet it. Though the debt ceiling doesn’t need to be raised until August and the 2017 tax cuts don’t expire until December, so if negotiations stall, Republicans do have time to pull themselves together before running into real-world deadlines.

Fiscal hawks’ complaints are predictable. House GOP leaders spent the weeks leading up to the Senate vote pleading with their Senate Republican counterparts to keep their legislative language as close to the House-passed bill as possible.

But both chambers have their fair share of determined members with varying constituencies, policy preferences, and donor incentives, meaning every single member has a bit of leverage. The slim GOP majorities in both chambers means the reconciliation slog has been a sort of Whack-A-Mole process: every lawmaker preference prompts pushback from someone else.

Following their more than 24-hour-long vote-a-thon on amendments which concluded with yesterday’s passage, sleep-deprived Senate Republican aides tell National Review they’re hopeful that House Republican holdouts will fold once Trump ups the political pressure ahead of the holiday weekend.

Meeting the president’s July 4 deadline is doable but definitely tricky. Swing-district Wisconsin Representative Derrick Van Orden put it bluntly to a reporter shortly before 2PM: “The president of the United States didn’t give us an assignment. We’re not a bunch of little bitches around here, okay? I’m a member of Congress. I represent almost 800,000 Wisconsinites.”

Things change quickly around here, meaning it’s entirely possible House GOP leaders could whip support for the bill as soon as tonight or tomorrow. But for now, the fate of the GOP’s mammoth budget bill is up in the air.