Nothing good happens after midnight,” Rep. Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania recalled his late mother warning him. It’s a lesson that seemed to come true in the early hours of Wednesday morning, as a 1 a.

"I think that all of our colleagues here will really like the final product and I think we're going to move forward," House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters Wednesday evening before the changes were released.

Republicans also used the manager's amendment to remove a federal requirement that firearm suppressors must be registered.

Nonpartisan research groups studying the proposal have estimated that it would add more than $2.5 trillion to the federal debt—currently at an all-time high of $36.8 trillion—over the next decade. Despite those projections,

The GOP tax bill could boost the highest-earning Americans' incomes while hurting low earners, according to findings from nonpartisan research groups.

Deficit hawks who had blocked the measure two days earlier are still dissatisfied and want steeper spending cuts.

House GOP leaders are barreling ahead with a vote on President Donald Trump’s agenda in the coming hours Wednesday, after Trump privately implored key holdouts not to derail the major tax and spending cuts package.