Why Trump faces toughest House GOP test yet on budget blueprint

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

75% : We had a great meeting today," Trump, donned in a bow tie, said at the dinner in Washington.
53% : President Trump has succeeded in uniting House Republicans ahead of a number of high-stakes votes this year -- the Speaker's race, the House-crafted budget resolution and a government funding bill -- cajoling skeptical GOP lawmakers into backing the efforts despite their qualms.
53% : Trump has been running a full-court press when it comes to lobbying.
49% : And in January, during the first vote of the 119th Congress, Trump spoke to two of the holdouts just off the House floor after they voted for someone other than the Speaker.
47% : As Wednesday's early-evening vote nears, Trump could ramp up his lobbying efforts by calling the critics directly, a strategy he has successfully executed in the past.
41% : The idea assumes that the extension of the tax cuts would not add anything to the deficit despite the Joint Committee on Taxation estimating it could cost around $4 billion.
37% : House committees, for example, are directed to find at least $1.5 trillion in cuts to federal spending, while Senate panels are mandated to slash at least $4 billion in federal spending -- a large discrepancy.
35% : But the hardening resistance is also a concerning dynamic for Trump, who is looking to maintain his influence over the ideologically diverse Republican conference -- and is at risk seeing that grip weaken.
34% : Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.), one of the final holdouts, cited a "personal commitment" from Trump as one of the reasons why she changed her stance.
24% : First, Harris, the Freedom Caucus chair, declined an invitation to meet with Trump at the White House on Tuesday, signaling that he had no appetite to be strong-armed by the president on the resolution.
14% : Asked Wednesday morning if he expected Trump to call the holdouts, Johnson said the president offered to do so but noted that he did not want it to get to that point.

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