Live updates and the latest news as Trump hosts South Africa's president and the House Rules Committee meets on the Republicans' budget bill.

WASHINGTON (AP) — With President Donald Trump's multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package at risk of stalling, House Speaker Mike Johnson and conservative Republican holdouts are heading Wednesday to the White House for the last-ditch talks to salvage the "big, beautiful bill."

A Louisiana bill that would have carved out a path for incarcerated people convicted by now-banned split juries the opportunity to ask for a new trial was rejected by Republican state senators on Wednesday,

Medicaid has become a key hot button topic in the sweeping tax and spending cuts bill that House Republicans are scrambling to pass as soon as this week.

Rep. Judy Chu (D-Ca.) said she worries over the future of at-home care for seniors if President Donald Trump’s federal funding package passes in the House. Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” proposes

To attract buyers for the bonds that will finance that deficit, the federal government will have to pay higher interest rates.

U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse took House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) to task Wednesday morning during a House Rules Committee meeting over a provision in the sweeping budget reconciliation bill to restrict federal judges' ability to enforce contempt findings.

The Republican budget bill proposed by the House of Representatives could enforce major changes to Medicaid and SNAP, but there are also significant updates to federal student loans included in the bill.