Trump's funding bill runs into Senate GOP fiscal hawks

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(ABC News) As the Senate prepares to put its imprint on President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act this week, Republicans are grappling over the potential impact the megabill might have on the national debt, which has ballooned to nearly $37 trillion.

With a 10-year budget bill, deficit hawks in the Senate like Rand Paul and Ron Johnson are drawing a red line — pushing for deeper cuts than those in the bill the House sent to them.

As lawmakers aim to send a bill to Trump by the Fourth of July, those demands could complicate the Senate's calculus for passage — where Republicans can only afford three defections.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-big-beautiful-bill-survive-193226018.html

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1. How about cutting out the big beautiful tax cuts for the rich.

Assholes.

[ancianita]

2. Corporate MEDIA uses the republican term "defection," but to vote down this oligarch bill is a patriotic vote, NOT

a defection.

When Paul/Johnson want MORE tax cuts, then at least 3 republican senators better have their political heads screwed on straight and their moral compasses intact.
Just because congressional approval ratings have crawled upward, doesn't mean that the senators won't lose their jobs by voting for oligarch tax cuts, paid for by harming at least 10 million medicaid recipients.