Live updates: Congress passes Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’

President Donald Trump promised hardline fiscal hawks he would use his executive authorities to vigorously enforce certain phaseout provisions for green energy tax credits in order to convince them to vote yes on his mega tax and spending cuts bill, one of the former holdouts said Thursday.

“He did a masterful job of laying out how we could improve it, how he could use his chief executive office, use things to make the bill better,” Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina said on CNBC.

A wide array of Republicans paraded through the West Wing on Wednesday as Trump worked to press them into voting yes on his bill. Trump sought to underscore the political stakes, but he also offered commitments on how the measure would be implemented in order to convince holdouts to come on board.

Holdout backs megabill: Norman had previously said he was opposed to the Senate-passed version of Trump’s sweeping domestic policy package, but he revealed his support Wednesday evening after meeting with the president at the White House.

In the meeting, Trump said he would use his office to ensure the bill’s provisions on phasing out some energy tax credits would be stringently enforced.

“President Trump is going to use his powers to — like on the subsidies, to make sure that it’s a lot of these subsidies won’t remain in effect, you know, from here on out,” Norman said.

Some Republicans have been vocal in their opposition to the Senate’s slower timeline to phase out some energy tax credits, and Norman said it was important for them to get assurances on that from the White House.

Norman said it was a major sticking point in the final hours of deliberations.

“Up until late in the night, we were negotiating, you know, things that could change with, you know, the tax credits, which all were put in by Joe Biden, which needed to be extinguished,” Norman said.

More on megabill: Still, he acknowledged nothing had changed within the bill that the Senate passed. And he said Trump would not override the language in the bill.

Instead, he said the president’s commitments were in enforcing what the law requires for clean energy projects to obtain government subsidies.

“He’s going to, on the permitting, he’s going to drive a hard bargain on the permitting. He’s going to have accountability, is the best way to describe it. And he assured us he was going to do that. And I think some executive orders, you’ll see, come down the pipe, which will be good,” Norman said.