As you've all been watching, it appears that Lil Mike Johnson is going to do everything he can to jam the big ugly bell through Congress in the dark of night.

Because of, I guess, a made-up July 4th deadline set by his boss Donald Trump, and because he also probably knows that the more time his members have to hear from their constituents, the more

likely he is not going to keep their votes on his side. I mean, right now the House is voting

on what is essentially a procedural step. The vote is open. They can keep it open as long as they

want before the final vote to approve the bill. That vote has been open for nearly seven hours

as Republican leadership negotiates

behind closed doors.

As Chris and I were just talking about, we have no idea what those conversations are,

what conversations and what promises are being made.

But those are happening as they're trying to get key holdouts.

Some of them are from the Freedom Caucus.

They want there to be more cuts. Some of them are from, I Caucus. They want there to be more cuts. Some of them

are from, I guess, a semi-more moderate version of Republicans who want some different things.

So those are the conversations happening. At least one member is now saying he expects the final

vote could be delayed until tomorrow. We don't have any confirmation of that, but that's what

one member is saying. And Democrats are preparing to use every tool they have to slow things down as they did over the night last night.

And we're going to watch closely over the next hour.

We're going to speak with a number of people who are right in the middle of it.

I want to start tonight with the historic unpopularity of this absolutely vile bill.

Because it reminds me a lot of what the midterm elections looked like the last time Donald

Trump was president.

When DC politicians voted to gut health care for people with preexisting conditions, I decided

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