Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., chair of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, said he declined an invitation to speak with President Donald Trump on Tuesday because he didn’t think he could be persuaded to support the pending GOP budget framework.

House Republicans wary of supporting the Senate-approved budget plan met with Trump to discuss the matter, but Harris said he wouldn’t be among them, telling reporters that Trump should “spend time with people whose minds he might change.”

“There’s nothing that I can hear at the White House that I don’t understand about the situation,” Harris said, according to Politico.

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