House GOP leaders were furious with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) as more details emerged about the Camp David meeting snub that left Republican lawmakers blindsided, according to reports Tuesday.
The meetings over budget reconciliation apparently took place Monday and left out Rep. Blake Moore (R-UT) and Rep. Erin Houchin (R-IN), two members of leadership on the budget committee, NOTUS politics reporter Reese Gorman wrote in a post on X.
Some moderate Republicans have reportedly not been included in any talks about the third reconciliation bill, NOTUS reported.
"If they want to pass something, they gotta know how to count the 218," Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) told NOTUS. "So again, I haven’t seen anything."
"When some members who were left out of the Camp David meeting confronted Johnson about it, he said the session with administration officials was only a couple hours long, a source told NOTUS, though members later found out that some of the group actually spent the night at Camp David, leading to more anger," Gorman wrote.
A White House official told NOTUS that they were planning "additional engagements" for more members.
"There were limited spots for this engagement," the official said.
Houchin was defiant in her response on Tuesday after she voiced her anger over getting left out of the Camp David meeting. She told lawmakers at a House Republican Conference meeting that "she was the whipping NO on the budget resolution," reported Jake Sherman, founder of Punchbowl News.
"She said she is a no because she wasn't included in convos and wasn't invited to the meeting at Camp David," Sherman wrote on X.