WASHINGTON — House Republicans are working overtime after a lengthy White House meeting to meet President Donald Trump’s demand for a big budget package that includes some $3 trillion in tax breaks, massive program cuts and a possible extension of the nation’s debt limit.

Speaker Mike Johnson had GOP lawmakers working into the night ahead of a self-imposed Friday deadline to produce the package, after having blown past an earlier timeline to draft the contours of a bill that could begin making its long journey through Congress to the president’s desk.

Trump’s message as he popped in and out of the nearly five-hour meeting Thursday at the White House was simple: Get it done.

“What he does a really good job at is: Here’s the end result that I want,” Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., the House GOP Conference chair, said afterward.

On the list for the emerging budget package from the House GOP: making tax cuts that expire at the end of this year permanent, cutting spending on federal programs and ensuring Trump has enough money to launch his deportation operation and finish building the U.S.-Mexico border wall. The package could raise the nation’s debt ceiling to allow more borrowing and prevent a federal default.

It’s a heavy lift for Congress, and House and Senate GOP leaders have been desperately looking to Trump for direction on how to proceed, but so far the president has been noncommittal about the details.

The standoff is creating frustration for Republicans as time is slipping and they fail to make progress on what has been their top priority with their party in control in Washington. At the same time, congressional phone lines are being swamped with callers protesting efforts led by billionaire Elon Musk against federal programs, services and operations.

Trump set the tone at the start of Thursday’s session, lawmakers said, then left. Republican senators are heading to his private Mar-a-Lago club for their own meeting today.

“Very positive developments today,” Johnson said once he returned to the Capitol.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president and lawmakers discussed “tax priorities of the Trump administration,” including Trump’s promises to end federal taxation of tips, Social Security benefits and overtime pay and renewing tax cuts Trump enacted in 2017.

Johnson, R-La., needs almost complete unanimity from his ranks to pass any bill over objections from Democrats. In the Senate, Republicans have a 53-47 majority, with little room for dissent.