It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone.

So we told you yesterday that we would lead today with what we're learning from the all-nighter

that members of the House of Representatives

have just pulled on the fate of Medicaid coverage for millions of Americans, the salt tax

deduction, tax breaks for billionaires and other items in the budget bill that Politico, for example,

describes as the central legislation of the Trump 2.0 project. Its fate was uncertain

enough, though, as you may have heard, that the president himself went to Capitol Hill for a last

minute lobbying trip yesterday and even dropped an F-bomb on his fellow Republicans. We'll explain why

and where it all stands, with who knows how many Congress members and journalists,

however, bleary-eyed at this point. And I wonder what else they slipped in there in the middle

of the night that they hoped we wouldn't notice. And no Democrat will vote for this bill,

so the Republicans can only lose two votes from their side of the aisle. Up with us now, with us now, I should say,

the up since the crack of dawn herself, and that's pretty early this time of year,

Mariana Sotomayor, who covers the House of Representatives for the Washington Post. Mariana,

thanks for doing this. Welcome back to WNYC.

Of course. Thanks for having me. So they started at 1 a.m. Is this still going on?

Oh, yeah. It's still going on and it's expected to go for several more hours. A number of the chairman from different committees and also ranking members are finishing, kind of testifying about what's in

their portions of this, as it's called one big beautiful bill. We should expect Democrats to actually

introduce dozens of amendments. So that's going to go into, you know, way, way late this

morning. And honestly, that is actually a lot of hours. That Speaker

Mike Johnson still needs to finish negotiations because those talks are still ongoing.

Yeah. And you identified in your reporting six Republican red lines that are complicating passage

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