A new rift has opened in the House Republican caucus over how best to carry out President Donald Trump’s sweeping “Make America Great Again” agenda. Conservative hardliners left the House GOP’s annual issues conference this week arguing leadership hasn’t found a path forward to effectively overhaul the federal government.

The hard-line House Freedom Caucus is again pressing House Speaker Mike Johnson to follow their lead to pass President Trump’s agenda, this time offering a pathway to avoid a spending showdown in March.

Speaker Mike Johnson’s power within the Republican Party is about to be tested unlike anything he has faced, with Donald Trump’s agenda on the line.

The House GOP’s Main Street Caucus has turned into a critical behind-the-scenes force for striking deals in the fractious, slim majority — and is set to grow even more important as its leaders

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) arrived at this week’s House Republican retreat with hopes of uniting the fractious GOP conference around a plan to pass President Trump’s agenda — but instead, the group is departing south Florida with rising tensions in its ranks.

Some House Republicans are frustrated with a lack of progress in the reconciliation process, but leadership says the conference is right on schedule.

President Donald Trump wants to enact a sweeping, conservative agenda. House Speaker Mike Johnson could be key to getting that done.

GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna repeatedly tried to convince Speaker Mike Johnson that he — as a pro-family champion — should back her push to allow new mothers to vote remotely for six weeks while they are recovering from birth.

Trump’s move to pause all federal grants and loans is a “legitimate exercise of executive oversight,” said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., who is often considered an institutionalist who has insisted upon the importance of Congressional power. “I don’t think putting a hold on things is extraordinary.”

After two-and-half days of meeting with members, House Speaker Mike Johnson said Republicans are still on schedule. But major questions over strategy aren’t resolved.

Among those raising alarms was Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska, one of three House Republicans representing a district Trump lost in November. He said the warnings Tuesday from himself and others in the GOP helped influence the Trump administration to “narrow what they were doing in a way.” (The White House rescinded the order hours later.)

The focus at the House GOP's three-day retreat was on party unity rather than diving into the weeds on big funding cuts and legislative procedure, where key differences loom.