(CNN) Uncertainty over President Donald Trump's position on two major bills — to deal with the damaging coronavirus fallout and an overhaul of federal surveillance laws — has once again complicated deliberations on Capitol Hill during a critical moment in his presidency.

GOP lawmakers are eager to hear whether Trump will back a sweeping coronavirus relief bill that has been the product of intense negotiations between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

While a source familiar with his thinking says Trump is expected to back the bill, nothing is final until Trump tweets it or states his position, which he may do at a Friday news conference. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy met at the White House with Trump on Friday to discuss the plan.

"Significantly," one top House Republican said when asked how much it would help to hear Trump's position as Republicans decide how to vote.

And Trump is now openly floating a veto of a bill to overhaul the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA -- even though that bill already passed the House after bipartisan talks led by Trump's own attorney general, Bill Barr, and closest allies like Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican. Key surveillance authorities are set to expire Sunday, and the Senate still needs to vote next week.

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