House Republican leaders spent nearly five hours at the White House yesterday – some of it with President Donald Trump – as they tried to finalize the outline of their tax and spending cut package. The plan is to release a framework with some numbers today.

House Republican leaders emerged late Thursday from a roughly three-hour meeting without an agreement on the contours of the massive budget reconciliation package they’ve been talking about for weeks.

La., is scrambling to assemble a budget reconciliation package with President Donald Trump’s key agenda items, including border security, national defense