A budget blueprint to unlock President Trump’s spending and tax cuts was teetering on the brink of collapse in the House on Tuesday, as anti-spending conservatives lined up to say they would oppose the measure because it would add too much to the nation’s debt.
House Republican leaders were pressing for a vote to move their party’s budget resolution past its next hurdle as early as Wednesday, after the Senate pushed through the measure in an overnight weekend session. The action would clear the way for the G.O.P. to craft legislation carrying out Mr. Trump’s domestic agenda and move it through Congress over unified Democratic opposition.
But its fate was in doubt after conservative hard-liners refused to back it and expressed doubt that even entreaties from Mr. Trump could overcome their opposition.
The president was scheduled to meet with a group of House Republicans at the White House later on Tuesday. G.O.P. lawmakers have shown him extraordinary deference in recent months, with even the staunchest holdouts giving in to Mr. Trump on critical votes. This time, at least some of them said that would not happen.
“No matter what the president tells anybody, the votes just aren’t there,” Representative Andy Harris of Maryland, the chairman of the Freedom Caucus, said, estimating that there were “at least a dozen” Republicans who would refuse to vote for the resolution.
Mr. Harris said that he had been invited to the meeting with Mr. Trump but declined. “Let the president spend time with people whose minds he might change,” he said. “He’s just not going to change my mind.”