House Republicans are becoming more divided on passing a reconciliation package that meets with President Donald Trump’s call for a “big beautiful bill” by their self-imposed Memorial Day deadline. 

Cuts to Medicaid and raises for the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap are the current sticking points, with the lawmakers indicating that they are not any closer to reaching compromises on the legislation, reported The Hill Thursday. 

“There’s a lot of different parameters and there’s a lot of different opinions,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., a member of the SALT Caucus and Ways and Means Committee, said. “So we just got to figure it out.”

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