GOP holdouts shift after Trump, Johnson offer assurances

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : But after the second meeting with Trump and Johnson on Wednesday, the biting criticisms had faded into words of cautious optimism that the package could win their support and move through the House in the early hours of Thursday morning.
53% : But the moderates are also pushing back against plans to eliminate the green-energy subsidies and slash Medicaid more deeply.
51% : After meeting with Trump at the White House on Wednesday afternoon, and then huddling together afterward on Capitol Hill, the members of the far-right Freedom Caucus emerged to say they're on the cusp of supporting the package -- if a laundry list of changes promised by the White House is reflected in the final proposal.
47% : " The conservatives' new openness to supporting the package marked a sharp contrast to the bombshells coming from the hardliners on Tuesday, when they were furious that their demands for steeper cuts to Medicaid and a broader phase-out of green energy subsidies were going ignored by GOP leaders.
45% : Even a visit by Trump to the Capitol didn't bring them on board.
39% : " The newfound enthusiasm among the hardliners appears to stem from assurances Trump and Johnson made during the White House meeting, including a promise from the president to issue more executive orders addressing some of the spending concerns the conservatives couldn't secure in the legislation, and expanding the rollback of green energy tax credits enacted in the Democrats' 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.
19% : Returning from his meeting with Trump, Johnson alluded to his strategy.
17% : The conservative hard-liners who've helped to hold up the Republicans' domestic agenda appear ready to support the massive package after a furious pressure campaign from President Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.).

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