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GOP leaders are planning to present to Senate Republicans options for the major policy decisions shaping their health-care bill during a closed-door lunch Tuesday, Senate GOP lawmakers and aides said Monday. The proposals are expected to include a prolonged phaseout of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. There is also growing interest in possible steps to shore up fragile individual insurance markets, according to people familiar with the discussions. (Armour and Peterson, 6/5)

"We've been talking about this for seven years, so now is the time to start coming up with some tangible alternatives and building consensus," GOP Sen. John Cornyn of Texas said Monday. (Werner, 6/5)

It’s a gut-check situation for Republicans, who are about to be confronted with tough choices that may result in millions fewer people with insurance coverage as a condition for cutting taxes and lowering some people’s premiums. “I don’t think this gets better over time,” said Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), a member of leadership. “So my personal view is we’ve got until now and the Fourth of July to decide if the votes are there or not. And I hope they are.” (Haberkorn and Everett, 6/5)

Thune acknowledged that members had varying perspectives on the likelihood of achieving the needed votes. (Lesniewski, 6/5)

Asked when the Senate would vote on a bill, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said, "July sometime." (Sullivan, 6/5)

President Donald Trump will meet with House and Senate leadership at the White House Tuesday afternoon to plot a path forward on health care and tax reform—two of the administration’s top legislative priorities that have been stalled in recent months amid a growing investigation into Trump associates’ ties to Russia. (Ballhaus, 6/5)