Trump’s move to pause all federal grants and loans is a “legitimate exercise of executive oversight,” said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., who is often considered an institutionalist who has insisted upon the importance of Congressional power. “I don’t think putting a hold on things is extraordinary.”

Republicans will attempt a tax and spending bill that will not require substantial budget cuts, but there may be serious math problems ahead.

House Republicans are in Florida for the next three days to hash out their agenda and hear from President Trump.

President Trump is scheduled to come back to the Sunshine State Saturday before attending the GOP retreat at his Doral golf club.

Holding the retreat at a Trump property threatens to ignite the same kind of criticism that dogged Trump’s first term: that he has sought to personally profit from his public position.

Speaking to the three top House Republican leaders over the past three days at the House GOP retreat here in Doral, Fla., revealed how President Trump is both the glue holding the fragile majority together and an earthquake that threatens to fracture it.