President Donald Trump traveled to Capitol Hill on Tuesday (May 20) to encourage Republican lawmakers to resolve their differences over a sweeping tax-cut bill that encompasses much of his domestic agenda.

Several factions in the Republican majority have expressed dissatisfaction over the bill and could yet block its passage in the House of Representatives. Trump acknowledged those concerns but predicted it would ultimately become law.

"It's not a question of holdouts. We have a tremendously unified party," Trump told reporters as he arrived at the Capitol. He said Republican lawmakers who vote against it could "possibly" face a primary challenge in next year's congressional elections.

The bill would extend the 2017 tax cuts that were Trump's signature first-term legislative achievement, and also add tax breaks on income from tips and overtime pay that were part of his populist push on the campaign trail. Nonpartisan analysts say it could add $3 trillion to $5 trillion to the federal government's $36.2 trillion in debt.

Trump will try to unify the divided 220-213 House majority, including hardliners eager for deep spending cuts, moderates worried about protecting Medicaid and Republican lawmakers from coastal states eager to protect their constituents' ability to deduct state and local taxes.

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1. U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WALKING DOWN HALLWAY

2. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, SAYING:

OFF-CAMERA REPORTER: “Mr. President. Mr. President, what's your message…What's your message to the holdouts?”

TRUMP: “Well, it's not a question of hold as we have a tremendously unified party. I don't think we've ever had a party like this or some people that want a couple of things that maybe I don't like or that they're not going to get. But I think we're going to have tremendous…Not luck. We have tremendous talent. This man (House Speaker Mike Johnson) has done an incredible job as speaker.”

3. WHITE FLASH

4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, SAYING:

“I think we're going to…I think we're a very unified party. The Senate's doing great. (Senate Majority Leader) John Thune is doing fantastic. He's a great guy. And we're going to have a bill. The one big, beautiful bill. I think is going to be the biggest bill ever passed, and we got to get it done. Tremendous tax cuts for people, tremendous incentives, tremendous regulation cuts, all these regulations that are so horrible.”

5. WHITE FLASH

6. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, SAYING:

“Because the Democrats have really hurt our country and we are going to go into very much…Remember what I said…the auto-pay. This government was illegally run for four years. Thank you very much everybody. Thank you.”

7. TRUMP WALKING AWAY

8. TRUMP WALKING DOWN STAIRS / REPORTER-OFF CAMERA ASKING QUESTION

9. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, SAYING:

OFF-CAMERA REPORTER: “Mr. President, should Republicans that [INAUDIBLE] this bill be primaried?”

TRUMP: “Possibly, I think we have great…we have a very, very united party. This man (House Speaker Mike Johnson) has done a fantastic job. And so have you, Lisa (McClain).”

10. WHITE FLASH

11. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, SAYING:

OFF-CAMERA REPORTER: “Do you want these negotiations to be over now?

TRUMP: “Which negotiations?”

OFF-CAMERA REPORTER: “Over this bill.”

TRUMP: “Oh yeah well, it's going to be. We're going to be putting it in soon and I think we're going have great support…We're going to make a couple of tweaks. I mean, we don't want to benefit Democrat governors. Although I would do that if it made it better. But they don't know what they're doing…We don't want to…we don't want to…we don't want to do any damage to a state. We want to help all the states.”

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13. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, SAYING:

“A lot of waste, fraud and abuse. That's all we're doing. We're not touching it. The Democrats are going to destroy it. Thank you very much.”

14. TRUMP WALKING AWAY

15. REPORTER ASKING TRUMP A QUESTION (UNINTELLIGIBLE)

16. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, SAYING:

“Waste, fraud, and abuse. That’s all it has been.”

17. TRUMP WALKING AWAY