House and Senate leaders are broadly aligned on the tax bill and have been meeting regularly to avoid points of conflict. But Senate Republicans made clear the compromise, a product of frenzied last-minute negotiations, must be negotiated again after it passed the House by a single vote on Thursday.

Clearing the House is just the first hurdle for the bill, which will also have to pass muster with a Senate Republican conference that is telegraphing changes ahead.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump 's sweeping tax and policy bill that would change Americans' everyday lives has cleared one big hurdle after several marathon days of negotiations in the U.S. House and an assist from the president himself. But the 1,000-plus-page legislation is still a long way from becoming a law.