Some House Republicans are frustrated with a lack of progress in the reconciliation process, but leadership says the conference is right on schedule.

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.”

It’s decision time for House Republicans as they gather for their annual policy retreat in Florida this week. While they are escaping the frigid conditions in Washington, Republicans must still

House Republicans traded the bitter cold of Washington, DC, for President Trump’s ritzy resort near Miami this week to figure out how their tenuous majority can fulfill the grandiose promises they’ve made for a legislative package that will define the 119th Congress.