Live updates: Trump budget blueprint opponents dig in, China tariff war escalates

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is racing to get House Republicans behind a Senate-passed framework for enacting large swaths of President Trump's domestic agenda, even as conservative opposition to the measure grows.

Trump was set to meet with a group of House Republicans Tuesday afternoon, but conservatives say they are skeptical his pressure campaign will win over holdouts.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration is vehemently defending the president's sweeping tariffs announced last week, even as business allies — and even some GOP lawmakers — become increasingly unsettled and markets tumble.

At a White House briefing Monday, press secretary Karoline Leavitt insisted Trump won’t back down on his threat to impose a more than 100 percent tariff rate on China, significantly escalating the trade war between the two nations hours before the deadline approaches.

Still to come, Trump is expected to sign an executive order on energy this afternoon and speak at a National Republican Congressional Committee dinner.

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