Speaker Mike Johnson gathered his leadership team in the Capitol Saturday morning to map a path through three converging Iran-war votes, with the most actively discussed option a single rule that would pair the Senate-passed war powers resolution, the Holloway commission resolution and the $89.4 billion war supplemental into one floor package — an approach that would force every House Republican into a recorded position on all three within a week.

The Saturday session, which began at 9 a.m. in the speaker’s third-floor conference room and ran past noon, brought together Majority Leader Steve Scalise, Whip Tom Emmer, House Armed Services Chair Mike Rogers and Rules Committee Chair Virginia Foxx, according to two leadership aides who described the agenda on condition of anonymity. Johnson has called a conference-wide meeting for Tuesday evening at 6:30 p.m. and has asked Foxx’s staff to circulate a draft rule by Monday at noon.

The combined-rule approach is intended to solve a math problem that tightened sharply over the past 72 hours. The Senate cleared the Kaine-Lee war powers resolution 58-42 on Friday afternoon, with seven Republicans crossing the aisle. Rep. Theresa Holloway’s discharge petition forced a House floor vote on her independent commission earlier in the week, with the seven-legislative-day clock now running. And the supplemental, the administration’s central post-war ask, faces an internal Republican split between roughly 18 Freedom Caucus members demanding offsets and a 15-member suburban bloc, led by Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, that has refused to vote for the rule absent a war powers vehicle attached.

“You can pass any one of these. You can pass any two of these. Bundling all three is the only way you pass all three without losing the conference on procedure,” said Liam Wexler, a former House parliamentarian now at the Bipartisan Policy Center. “It is a high-wire act, but it is the only wire that gets the speaker to the other side of Memorial Day with a record.”

A combined rule would, by leadership’s own projection circulated to whips Friday night, draw between 200 and 213 Republican votes for adoption — requiring between five and 18 Democratic procedural votes to clear. Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Friday that Democrats would not provide rule support without a closed-door briefing on casualty figures, intelligence inputs and the March 12 Office of Legal Counsel memorandum that has been the subject of bipartisan staff inquiries. A senior Jeffries aide said Saturday that Democrats would consider procedural support if the rule preserved a clean vote on the Holloway commission, mirrored the Senate war powers text, and did not include rescissions.

The proposed bundle has generated immediate tension inside the Republican conference. Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, a leading Freedom Caucus voice on fiscal questions, said in a Saturday statement that he would vote against any rule “that delivers a $90 billion check without a single dollar of offsets and then asks me to swallow a commission designed to embarrass the commander in chief.” Fitzpatrick, reached by phone from his district in Bucks County, took the opposite line.

“We have been asking for a clean vote on the principle that Congress declares wars for six weeks,” Fitzpatrick said. “If the speaker brings forward a rule that gives my district that vote, and gives the Pentagon what it needs to replenish the magazine, I will vote for it. Most of my colleagues in the Problem Solvers Caucus will, too.”

Johnson, who narrowly retained the gavel in January with a one-vote margin and has lost three procedural votes since then, has little room to maneuver. Two members who attended Saturday’s session said the speaker had asked Foxx to draft two alternative rules — one combined, one splitting the supplemental from the oversight measures — and to have whip counts on both by Tuesday. “He has not made a decision,” one of the members said. “He is trying to figure out which loss he can absorb.”

The White House posture, until Friday one of public opposition to both oversight vehicles, has softened in private. Three administration officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the president had directed White House counsel Caleb Strickland on Friday evening to finalize a signing-statement approach under which Trump would allow the war powers resolution to become law without his signature, rather than veto it, if it cleared the House. The calculation, the officials said, reflected both the unfavorable veto math and internal polling showing 64 percent of independents in eight battleground House districts favored a congressional vote on any future strikes against Iran.

“The president believes the resolution is constitutionally infirm,” one of the officials said. “He also believes the political cost of vetoing it during a recovery week, with Brent at $94 and April payrolls printing at 196,000, is higher than the cost of letting it expire onto the books without his name.”

The Holloway commission is being handled separately, the officials said, with the counsel’s office drafting “narrowing amendments” friendly Republicans would offer on the floor — limiting the panel’s subpoena authority to operational and oversight matters and imposing a 14-month reporting deadline. A Holloway spokesperson confirmed Saturday that the congresswoman had spoken with Reps. Don Bacon of Nebraska and Mike Lawler of New York about additional procedural protections, but said Holloway would not accept any amendment limiting the panel’s access to classified material.

Outside Washington, vulnerable members fanned out at town halls with messaging that diverged sharply by district. Rep. Caleb Hartley of Pennsylvania’s 7th told a coffee-shop crowd in Bethlehem he would vote for both the supplemental and the commission if both reached the floor cleanly. Rep. Mariana Olvera of Arizona’s 6th said at a veterans’ breakfast in Mesa that her supplemental vote would depend on whether mental-health funding for returning service members survived. Polling released Saturday by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal showed 63 percent of registered voters backing an independent investigation of the war’s conduct and 57 percent favoring a congressional vote on future strikes.

“The room the speaker walked into this morning is not the room he walked into a week ago,” said David Wasserman of the Cook Political Report. “The Senate has voted. The discharge petition has cleared. He is choosing the shape of the vote, not whether it happens.”

Senate action on the supplemental resumes Monday at 3 p.m., with the first roster of amendments expected to focus on offsets, an independent reconstruction inspector general and the $4 billion in Defense Health Agency mental-health funding Chair Susan Collins has signaled she will add. Aides to Johnson said the draft rule, in whichever form, would be filed with the Rules Committee no later than Wednesday morning, with floor consideration to follow before the chamber leaves Friday for the Memorial Day district work period.