Trump suggests theory about Comey’s ’86 47′ post, says he did it ‘for a reason’

President Donald Trump is condemning a cryptic social media post from former FBI Director James Comey, which Trump and others interpreted as a veiled call for his assassination.

In an exclusive interview with Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier during a visit to Abu Dhabi, Trump said the now-deleted post, which showed seashells arranged to form the numbers “86 47,” was deliberate.

“He wasn’t very competent. But he was competent enough to know what that meant. And, he did it for a reason,” Trump said in an interview that aired Friday on “Special Report.”

The post, shared on Instagram, featured the caption, “Cool shell formation on my beach walk.” Some interpreted it as a coded message, with “86” being slang for “get rid of,” and “47” referring to Trump, who is the 47th president of the United States. 

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Comey later deleted the post and issued an apology, saying, “I didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence. It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down.”

Trump, however, is not convinced.

“He knew exactly what that meant. A child knows what that meant,” he said. “If you’re the FBI director, and you don’t know what that meant – that meant assassination, and it says it loud and clear.”

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When asked whether Comey should face consequences, Trump declined to give a definitive answer but said the Justice Department and U.S. Secret Service are investigating.

“If he had a clean history – he doesn’t, he’s a dirty cop … I could understand if there was a leniency. But I’m going to let them make that decision,” he said.

Trump also used the interview to highlight recent foreign policy developments, claiming success in brokering peace and securing economic deals in the Middle East.

“I’m using trade to settle scores and to make peace,” Trump said.

He pointed to a recent ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan, calling it a major breakthrough that averted what he claimed was the potential for nuclear war.

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“That was going to be a nuclear war, I think, or close … And now everyone’s happy,” Trump said. “In fact, I told my people, call them up, let’s start trading immediately.”

Earlier this month, Trump announced the ceasefire in a Truth Social post, congratulating both nuclear powers for showing what he called “common sense.” 

He said he’s also looking to use his trade strategy with Iran, which he claims is looking to make a deal with the United States. The president reiterated his stance that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, and noted the solution will either be “violent or not violent” and said he would prefer the peaceful option.   

Trump is returning to Washington with what he described as three major investment deals from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar, amounting to billions of dollars in commitments to the U.S. economy.

He also criticized President Joe Biden’s approach to the region, saying, “It’s a great region, but it was never treated properly. And it was certainly not treated well by Biden, who didn’t know he was alive, frankly.”

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Trump added that he has eased “crippling” sanctions on Syria, claiming the country’s leadership requested relief to prove they could change.

The president also commented on the ongoing war in Ukraine, saying Russian President Vladimir Putin is growing “tired” of the conflict. Trump said he believes he could pressure Russia into peace talks using economic leverage, as he claims to have done with Iran, but only if he has to.

He criticized Biden for what he views as a failure to prevent the war, repeating his longstanding argument that the invasion would not have happened under his administration.

Toward the end of the interview, Trump discussed the investigations into two assassination attempts against him during the 2024 campaign season. He revealed that, while some information remains classified, he has been briefed by officials and still has questions.

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“I thought it was strange,” Trump said of one suspect. “The one guy had 18 cell phones, okay? I have a lot of cell phones, but I have like two.”

Discussing the Butler, Pennsylvania incident, where a bullet grazed his ear, Trump said investigators found unusual activity on the assailant’s phone.

“Three apps. Very unusual apps. And two of them were foreign apps,” he noted.

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Trump says that although he continues to feel uneasy, he’s been assured by officials that he is not currently at risk.

“They tell me it’s fine,” he said. “It’s a bit hard to be believe as I get that throbbing feeling. I get a little throbbing feeling,” he added, touching on the lingering effects of his injury.

SCOTUS blocks Venezuelan migrants’ deportation under Alien Enemies Act

The Supreme Court on Friday decided in favor of an appeal by a group of Venezuelan migrants who asked the high court to halt their deportation under the Alien Enemies Act (AEA). 

The decision, similar to others it has made in the past on the matter, revolved around the alleged illegal immigrants not having enough time to reasonably file a challenge to their deportations. Two justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, dissented.

President Donald Trump has been using the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to try and speed up the deportation processes of illegal immigrants, but the Supreme Court’s Friday ruling presents another blow to those attempts after the court ruled against the Trump administration in their effort to remove men already in immigration custody in a northern region of Texas.

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“Under these circumstances, notice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal, surely does not pass muster. But it is not optimal for this Court, far removed from the circumstances on the ground, to determine in the first instance the precise process necessary to satisfy the Constitution in this case. We remand the case to the Fifth Circuit for that purpose,” the ruling from the court reads. 

The court did not rule on Friday on whether the AEA was lawful, but rather sent the matter back to the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

“To be clear, we decide today only that the detainees are entitled to more notice than was given on April 18,” the Supreme Court’s ruling said.

Last month, the Supreme Court lifted a lower court’s order barring the government from deporting migrants under the AEA. However, that decision also made clear that anyone the government wants to deport must be given proper notice. A few weeks after that decision, the Court halted deportations of illegal immigrants in Texas that the Trump administration was trying to proceed with under the AEA.

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The Supreme Court’s Friday decision to once again halt deportations by the Trump administration comes a day after the High Court’s justices heard oral arguments in a case on birthright citizenship, which is also tied to whether federal judges can use their power to block the president’s executive actions nationwide. Several lower court federal judges have sought to stop the Trump administration from rapidly deporting illegal immigrants under the AEA.

Including the birthright citizenship case, there are five other pending emergency appeals dealing with challenges to Trump executive actions.

Those include cases related to temporary protected status (TPS) for Venezuelan migrants, immigrant parole programs, independent agency member firings, DOGE access to Social Security Administration data and federal workforce-reduction efforts — the last of which was filed on Friday afternoon.

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“THE SUPREME COURT WON’T ALLOW US TO GET CRIMINALS OUT OF OUR COUNTRY!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform after news of the ruling.

The president followed up with a subsequent post on the platform, as well.

“The Supreme Court has just ruled that the worst murderers, drug dealers, gang members, and even those who are mentally insane, who came into our Country illegally, are not allowed to be forced out without going through a long, protracted, and expensive Legal Process, one that will take, possibly, many years for each person, and one that will allow these people to commit many crimes before they even see the inside of a Courthouse,” he wrote. 

“The result of this decision will let more CRIMINALS pour into our Country, doing great harm to our cherished American public. It will also encourage other criminals to illegally enter our Country, wreaking havoc and bedlam wherever they go. The Supreme Court of the United States is not allowing me to do what I was elected to do. Sleepy Joe Biden allowed MILLIONS of Criminal Aliens to come into our Country without any ‘PROCESS’ but, in order to get them out of our Country, we have to go through a long and extended PROCESS. In any event, thank you to Justice Alito and Justice Thomas for attempting to protect our Country. This is a bad and dangerous day for America!”

Ivanka Trump sends message to Eagles player who called her ‘beautiful’

President Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, showed the inside of the Philadelphia Eagles’ locker room in an X post Friday. 

She appeared to be looking for cornerback Eli Ricks, the player who said she was “beautiful” during the team’s White House visit in April. 

Ivanka’s post was in direct response to Ricks’ original tweet that said, “Donald trump daughter is beautiful,” from April 28. 

Ricks later wrote, “After seeing her in person, Ivanka is exactly my type.”

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In response, she told Ricks. “Missed you today,” and included a photo of a note to the cornerback that said, “stopped by to say hi! Sorry to miss you! Go Birds!” 

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The president’s daughter then shared a series of videos and photos showing her son Theo at the Eagles’ training complex playing catch on the practice field. 

Ricks joined the Eagles in 2023 as an undrafted free agent out of LSU and Alabama.

He played 16 games in 2023 and seven in 2024, registering 21 tackles and three pass breakups. A lot of his snaps have come on special teams.

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Ivanka is married to Jared Kushner, and they have three children — Theo, Arabella and Joseph. 

Caitlin Clark pours gasoline on fiery rivalry with Angel Reese ahead of opener

Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese will renew their rivalry Saturday in the WNBA season opener between the Indiana Fever and Chicago Sky. 

Clark opened up to ESPN about facing her rival to start their second season.

“Rivalries are real, and that’s what makes sports so amazing,” Clark said. “There’s certain teams that those games just mean a little bit more. [We] come out here and play the same way every night, but [a rivalry] gets the fans involved, and they love it.”

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The two players have been pitted against each other on the court and by fans and media ever since their controversial battle in the 2023 NCAA championship game. Reese taunted Clark by pointing to her ring finger during the game, prompting outrage and sparking an ongoing feud between fans. 

Clark’s Iowa Hawkeyes got revenge on Reese’s LSU Tigers a year later in the Elite Eight, but the tension hit a whole new level when the players reached the pros for their rookie WNBA seasons.

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Clark took a series of questionable fouls from Reese’s Sky throughout the 2024 season, including one from Reese June 16. 

Clark also took an infamous illegal hip check from Chicago Sky forward Chennedy Carter June 1. Then, in late August, Chicago’s Diamond DeShields committed a hard foul on Clark, who went flying across the floor. The foul was later upgraded to a flagrant violation, and DeShields later posted screenshots of hate messages she had received from the foul.

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But Clark’s team prevailed, taking three of the four meetings between the two teams last year, which were among the most-watched WNBA contests all season. 

The Sky and Fever meet five times in 2025. 

Judge stunned over Trump DOJ answers in hearing on alleged MS-13 member

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis excoriated Trump administration lawyers Friday in a remarkable status hearing centered on Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Salvadorian migrant and alleged MS-13 member who was deported from Maryland to El Salvador in March in what administration officials have acknowledged was an administrative error.

The heated back-and-forth was full of eye-popping exchanges between the judge and the Justice Department, as she took umbrage with their attempts to invoke the state secrets privilege to shield details concerning Abrego Garcia from the court. 

“What world are we living in,” Xinis asked in disbelief after more than two hours of proceedings. “What sort of legal world are we living in?”

She sparred multiple times with DOJ lawyers over their assertion that Abrego Garcia was lawfully detained and deported. 

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“He was lawfully detained? No he wasn’t!” Judge Xinis objected. “There was no order of removal, there was no warrant for removal – there was nothing.”

She cut off Justice Department attorney Jonathan Guynn again when he attempted to continue with a different argument. “You didn’t even respond to what I just said,” she told him. “A DHS attorney came in at the first hearing and confirmed that there was no lawful basis to arrest Abrego Garcia.”

“Why are we skipping over that – as part of the misconduct at issue, in light of the pattern I’m currently faced with on this day?” she asked, in disbelief.

For at least 30 seconds, the courtroom fell completely silent. 

The judge said she would issue an order later Friday outlining next steps, after the two sides huddled for a closed portion of the case. 

Xinis, who, despite her mounting frustrations, seemed likely to grant the government another deadline extension, described the hours-long hearing as beating a “frustrated and dead horse.” 

At one point, she rebuked the Justice Department for trying to invoke the state secrets privilege via a footnote referencing a filing in a separate case before a different court, noting that this would not pass muster in her courtroom.

Most of the public hearing was marked by similar sharp exchanges over whether the Trump administration had taken any steps to comply with court orders to facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return – a point Xinis reiterated was already settled by both her court and the Supreme Court last month.

At another contentious moment, she laughed in apparent disbelief at the lack of evidence and disclosures from the government. “I can’t count the number of ‘I don’t knows’ my wonderful clerks and I have heard,” she said of depositions from Trump administration officials.

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Xinis told the government lawyers they had not presented her with a sufficient affidavit to invoke the state secrets privilege – which the Trump administration has asserted is necessary in this case to protect sensitive diplomatic and foreign policy matters from being made public in court. 

Pointing to a prior admission from the Trump administration, Xinis also said Abrego Garcia was removed from the U.S. “without lawful authority.” 

“You’ve conceded it. There’s witness testimony,” she said. Any attempt to revise this “would be exceptionally difficult.”

 “Respectfully, your honor, he was removed lawfully,” Guynn replied.

“No,” an incredulous Xinis shot back. “He was removed unlawfully.”

“His removal from the U.S. was lawful,” the Justice Department attorney insisted. 

“Well no – no it wasn’t,” Xinis said, visibly stunned. 

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“Because there’s actually the [Immigration and Naturalization Act], which says that if the United States elects to remove someone to a third country, there’s a process. Congress has set out that process, the executive has to follow that process.,” she said. “So it is not determined yet whether removal to a third country would be appropriate, which is why the Supreme Court ruled the way it did.”

Ultimately, she said, the government will likely have extra time to file additional declarations to allow it to seek the state secrets privilege.

Still, she said she “has to point out” that the unlawful removal of Abrego Garcia from the U.S. “is a foregone conclusion.”

“He was removed in error. He was sent to El Salvador when there was a notice of withholding of removal, and so that was not lawful.” 

Plaintiffs noted that the government had labeled 1,140 documents related to Abrego Garcia’s case as privileged – but in contrast, they were sent just 164 documents – 132 of which were photocopies of their own court filings and interrogatories sent back to them.

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“Your Honor, a life is in the balance,” Abrego Garcia’s lawyers said, urging the court to move faster.

Xinis previously criticized the administration for failing to comply with her court’s requests for information in the case – accusing officials in a blistering eight-page order of submitting “vague, evasive and incomplete” responses that she said demonstrated “willful and bad faith refusal to comply with discovery obligations.”

Ex-Vikings player slams ’embarrassing’ AG for letting trans athlete dominate softball

Former Minnesota Vikings and University of Minnesota football player Jack Brewer shared a grievance with Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. 

The AG is waging a legal battle against President Donald Trump and the Department of Justice to ensure transgender athletes can continue participating in girls sports in the state. The state’s ongoing defiance of Trump’s executive order to keep girls sports female has resulted in a controversy involving a transgender pitcher who has dominated a girls softball season. 

“Clearly, Keith Ellison, the attorney general of Minnesota, has never played any major sports,” Brewer told Fox News Digital. 

“It’s like he’s never stepped foot in a real locker room, especially not one where the sport demanded true athleticism, grit and toughness. It’s embarrassing to watch a Black man stand before the nation and promote boys competing against girls.”

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The White House has responded to the lawsuit, condemning Ellison for taking legal action to enable trans inclusion. 

“Why would a grown man sue the Trump administration to allow other biological males to participate in women’s sports? This is creepy and anti-woman,” White House spokesperson Harrison Fields told Fox News Digital. 

Brewer played four seasons for the Golden Gophers from 1998-2001, then started his NFL career with the Vikings in 2002. He also raised his children in the state. 

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“The state has veered so far off course that it’s doing the exact opposite of what it once stood for. It used to be a national leader on Title IX and women’s rights. Now, it’s destroying women’s sports, degrading women and promoting situations where men are physically dominating women,” Brewer said. 

“It’s heartbreaking for any former Gopher, any former Viking, any professional athlete who’s lived in that great city. It’s embarrassing. It’s shocking. And, to be honest, it’s just devastating.” 

Reports of a trans softball pitcher winning 14 straight games heading into the playoffs and earning first-team All-State honors rocked the state in recent weeks. 

For Brewer, it is a difficult situation to witness as a Minnesota resident and former pro athlete. 

“In any sport — especially something like softball — people can get seriously hurt. A man hits the ball harder. A man throws the ball faster. So, the idea of allowing men to compete in women’s softball — especially now, when that sport has grown in visibility and opportunity — is insane,” Brewer said. 

“Women’s softball is one of the fastest-growing sports in America. If every high school varsity baseball player decided to go play Division I women’s softball, there would be no women left on the field. Anyone who supports that agenda is either ignorant or pushing politics over people. 

“And that’s exactly what Keith Ellison is doing. They don’t care about the girls. They care about fundraising and staying in power, and they’re doing it at the expense of young athletes all across America.

“President Trump understands exactly what’s happening. He said it best. If you put a bunch of MLB players on a women’s softball team, they’d win the championship.”

Ellison made the announcement of the lawsuit at a press conference after months of the state defying Trump’s “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive order. Ellison claimed he received notice from the Department of Justice threatening legal action if the state did not follow the executive order. 

“I’m not going to sit around waiting for the Trump administration to sue Minnesota. Today, Minnesota is suing him and his administration because we will not participate in this shameful bullying,” Ellison said. “We will not let a small group of vulnerable children who are only trying be healthy and live their lives be demonized.” 

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Ellison’s lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, argues the Trump administration does not have the authority to set states’ athletic gender eligibility policies through an executive order.

Minnesota is the first state to sue the Department of Justice over threats of funding cuts for allowing trans athletes to play in girls sports and the second state to sue the Trump administration over the issue. 

Maine filed a lawsuit against Trump after the Department of Agriculture cut funding to the state April 2, and a federal judge has already ruled the USDA must release the funding to Maine.

After Trump’s executive order, the Minnesota State High School League announced it would defy federal law by allowing transgender athletes to continue playing in women’s sports.

Ellison’s office said “based on the plain language of the statute, educational institutions and the Minnesota State High School League would violate the MHRA by prohibiting transgender athletes from participating in extracurricular activities consistent with their gender identity.”

Minnesota’s state legislature failed to pass the Preserving Girls’ Sports Act in early March, which would have stated that “only female students may participate in an elementary or secondary school level athletic team or sport that an educational institution has restricted to women and girls.”

A New York Times/Ipsos survey found the vast majority of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, don’t think transgender athletes should be permitted to compete in women’s sports. 

Of the 2,128 people who participated, 79% said biological males who identify as women should not be allowed to participate in women’s sports. Of the 1,025 people who identified as Democrats or leaning Democratic, 67% said transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete with women. 

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Handful of Republicans sink Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ in key House committee

President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” failed to pass the House Budget Committee on Friday, in what appears to be a massive blow to House GOP leaders’ plans to hold a House-wide vote next week.

Republican Reps. Chip Roy of Texas, Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma, Andrew Clyde of Georgia and Ralph Norman of South Carolina all voted against the legislation. 

A fifth House Republican, Rep. Lloyd Smucker of Pennsylvania, also switched his vote from “yes” to “no,” though it was a procedural maneuver that allows him to bring the legislation up again. Smucker told reporters he was “quite confident” in the bill’s success.

House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, has directed the panel to reconvene on Sunday night at 10 p.m. for another vote.

The committee met to mark up and debate the bill, a massive piece of legislation that’s a product of 11 different House committees’ individual efforts to craft policy under their jurisdictions. The result is a wide-ranging bill that advances Trump’s priorities on the border, immigration, taxes, energy, defense and raising the debt limit. 

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Emotions ran high in the hallway outside the House Budget Committee’s meeting room from the outset, however, giving the media little indication of how events would transpire.

Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, who had been at home with his wife and newborn baby, surprised reporters when he arrived at the Cannon House Office Building after he was initially expected to miss the committee meeting.

His appearance gave House GOP leaders some added wiggle room, allowing the committee to lose two Republican votes and still pass the bill, rather than just one.

But at least four House Republicans went into the meeting warning they were opposed to the bill.

Shortly before the meeting was expected to begin, Roy, Norman, Clyde and Brecheen abruptly left the room while saying little to reporters on the way out.

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Each came back a short while later and criticized the legislation in their opening remarks.

The fiscal hawks are frustrated about provisions curbing Medicaid in the bill not going into effect until 2029, and had similar issues with the delay in phasing out green energy subsidies from former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.

“Only in Washington are we expected to bet on the come that in five years, then everything will work. Then we will solve the problem,” Roy said during debate. “We have got to change the direction of this town. And to my colleagues and other side of the aisle, yes, that means touching Medicaid.

At one point, Norman came out of the room and called for the committee to recess in order to work through the fiscal hawks’ concerns.

“If they call for a vote now, it’s not going to end well,” he said, adding he was still waiting on commitments from House GOP leaders.

Minutes later, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., who is not a member of the committee but had been meeting with holdouts, told reporters he wanted the legislation to advance through the Budget panel “as soon as possible.”

When asked about Norman’s comments, he said, “I just walked out of the meeting with him a few minutes ago as well. We’re working on some questions that Ralph and others have, and we’re going to be getting them answers as soon as we get them back from the Trump administration.”

Roy said on X after the vote, “We were making progress, but the vote was called, and the problems were not resolved, so I voted no. I am staying in Washington this weekend to deliver.”

“Medicaid Work requirements must start NOW not 2029 & the Green New Scam must be fully repealed, as President Trump called for,” Roy wrote on X.

Earlier, Trump took to Truth Social where he suggested those opposing the bill were “grandstanders” and he pressed Republicans to unite behind it.

His message appeared to have little effect on the rebels, however — though it’s notable Trump is not in Washington, and is currently en route back from a diplomatic trip to the Middle East.

House Republicans are working to pass Trump’s agenda via the budget reconciliation process, which allows the party controlling the House, White House, and Senate to pass broad pieces of legislation while completely sidelining the minority party.

It does so by lowering the Senate’s threshold for passage from 60 votes to 51, provided the legislation deals with spending, taxes or the national debt.

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has said he wants the legislation to pass the House by Memorial Day, with a goal of syncing up with the Senate and getting a bill to Trump’s desk by the Fourth of July.

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That’s still possible if Republicans on the House Budget Committee strike an agreement to advance the legislation on Monday.

Afterwards, it would head to the House Rules Committee for any potential changes, before a House-wide vote sometime later in the week.

But Republican senators have already indicated they want to see some changes to the bill, meaning the House will need to hash out their differences with their counterparts in the upper chamber before the legislation is finished.

The House Freedom Caucus, which the bill’s four Budget Committee opponents belong to, has said its members would stay in Washington through the weekend to continue working.

“We are continuing to negotiate. We are not leaving right now. We have been making progress and are continuing to work on the legislation,” a Freedom Caucus spokeswoman told Fox News Digital.