Trump administration live updates: House leaders and White House officials scramble to sway GOP holdouts on Trump agenda bill House Speaker Mike Johnson has said he hopes a final vote on the Trump-backed bill will take place today or tomorrow.

A roll call that started late Wednesday finally closed almost six hours later, a highly unusual stall on a procedural step.

The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday advanced President Donald Trump's sweeping tax-cut and spending bill, a procedural step setting the stage for possible passage of the legislation in a vote expected later in the day.