Republican Congressman Rep. Thomas Massie continues to fight against President Trump.
After the Senate passed the ‘Big, Beautiful, Bill’ yesterday, the bill is now facing one last hurdle in the House before it can be signed into law by President Trump.
Currently, the House is scheduled to vote on the final version of the bill tomorrow.
And today, Rep. Thomas Massie happily declared that he has a “bloc of 10” House Republicans ready to vote ‘NO.’
That would be more than enough to block it, as the House can only afford to lose three Republican votes for the bill to pass.
BREAKING: Congressman Thomas Massie claims he has a “bloc of 10” Republican members who will vote NO on President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, per POLITICO
10 would be enough to sink it. pic.twitter.com/nSrtoyQ6Pt
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 2, 2025
NOTUS journalist Reese Gorman originally reported:
Thomas Massie enthusiastically tells me he has a “vote bloc of 10” Republican members who are NO’s on the Senate’s reconciliation bill.
— Reese Gorman (@reesejgorman) July 2, 2025
Massie didn’t name any names.
However, Thomas Massie’s “vote bloc of 10” Republicans does seem to be referring to the group of GOP holdouts who visited the White House today in order to meet with President Trump and other officials.
Many members came out of that meeting “a little closer” to flipping their vote.
CNN has more on that:
A large group of House conservatives, including many in the House Freedom Caucus, left for the White House late this morning. That included Reps. Chip Roy, Ralph Norman and Tim Burchett, key holdouts on the megabill.
Norman — who, like Roy, voted against advancing the rule out of the House Rules Committee — told CNN that he didn’t know if they’ll meet directly with Trump but acknowledged that “he controls the shots.”
A White House official told CNN earlier the president was expected to meet with at least some members.
Burchett, who ultimately voted for the House version of the bill after expressing reservations about spending levels, said he’s still “undecided” on how he’ll ultimately vote on the Senate-passed version.
ADVERTISEMENT“I don’t care if it’s July 40th, honestly,” Burchett said, explaining that Trump’s July 4 deadline “push(es) us up against to what we’re doing right now and that’s panicking.”
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, who voted present on the version of the bill that the House passed in May, told CNN: “I’m still voting no on the rule. We have to get this thing right.”
Kentucky GOP Rep. Thomas Massie, who has consistently voted against the bill over his deficit concerns and has faced the ire of Trump, said he intends to stand firm in that position.
Asked if there was anything at all leadership could do to win his vote, he said, “We could go back to drawing board to a skinny bill.”
He called the July 4 deadline “arbitrary,” adding, “There’s no reason to bankrupt the country because you want to go shoot off some fireworks.”…
Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett, a key GOP holdout, told CNN he is moving closer to voting yes on President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda bill after meeting with the president at the White House earlier in the day.
“It puts me a little closer. We’re going to meet a little bit here and go over everything and make sure we got all our facts straight,” Burchett said. “The president was very informative.”
Burchett, whose meeting at the White House lasted for two hours, said the members who were in his meeting at the White House wanted to meet together again to discuss before a final vote.
South Dakota Rep. Dusty Johnson, who also earlier met with Trump, told reporters he believes the president will be “the closer” on the bill.
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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson says he is confident that House Republicans will work out the details in order to get enough votes to pass President Trump’s agenda.
Reuters reported:
House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters he was confident that Republicans could secure the vote.
He said he felt good about “where we are and where we’re headed.”
“We are working through everybody’s issues and making sure that we can secure this vote,” he said.
“All of us have to give up on our personal preferences,” he said. “I’m never going to ask anybody to compromise core principles. But preferences must be yielded for the greater good, and that’s what I think people are recognizing and coming to grips with.”
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