Fiscal hawks have repeatedly threatened to bring down their party’s agenda out of debt fears, only to back down after pressure from party leaders and President Trump.
Representative Chip Roy, Republican of Texas, has said the Senate failed to improve a House bill that he described as a “mediocre but passable product.”
The House remained frozen in place all day Wednesday as party leaders labored to address the concerns of Republican holdouts who were resisting changes the Senate made to the party’s major policy bill.
Bishop Michael M. Pham of San Diego, center right, was the first bishop named by Pope Leo in the United States. He recently went to a courthouse to support migrants waiting for hearings.