Trump’s financing bill comes up against the Hawks tax Senate

While the Senate is preparing to exercise its imprint on the Big Bill Act of President Donald Trump this week, the Republicans are struggling on the potential impact that Megabill could have on national debt, which has increased nearly 37 billions of dollars.

With a 10 -year budget bill, the hawks deficit in the Senate like Rand Paul and Ron Johnson draw a red line – put pressure for deeper cuts than those of the house that the room sent them.

While legislators aim to send a bill to Trump by July 4, these requests could complicate the calculation of the Senate for adoption – where Republicans can only afford three defections.

On the one hand, the One Big Beautiful Bill law reduces expenditure by more than $ 1.5 billion compared to current basic expenses – according to the preliminary analysis of the non -partisan congress budget, achieving the objective of reconciliation between 1.5 and 2 billion dollars in spending reductions.

On the other hand, the bill always adds about 3.1 billions of dollars to debt, according to the CBO – although some Republicans such as representative Thomas Massie in Kentucky predict that he could increase up to 20 billions of debt dollars during the next decade.

In disagreement with the White House

Paul and Johnson are directly in contradiction with the White House, which underlines an analysis of the Council of Economic Advisers of the White House which notes that the legislation will save 1.6 Billion of dollars over 10 years.

“There are 1.6 billion of dollars of savings in this bill,” said the press secretary of the White House, Karoline Leavitt, during a press briefing on May 19. “It is the greatest economy for any legislation that has ever adopted Capitol Hill in the history of our country.”

In a press briefing Thursday, Leavitt attacked the CBO and other score guards, saying that they used “poor quality hypotheses and were historically terrible in forecasts through democratic and republican administrations”.

The Senate should modify the proposal adopted by the Chamber and some of the Senate fiscal hawks conditioned their support for the implementation of even higher cuts. But any reduction that these members will wish to be implemented must be balanced by the management of the Senate against the desires of moderates who wish to preserve the main programs of social security nets, creating major challenges to compensate for the cost of the package.

Will the room and the Senate be seen?

Another complication: any modification of the bill brought by the Senate must be approved by the Chamber, which narrowly sent the bill to the upper House by a single vote.

President Mike Johnson, who guided the bill through the objections of the two fiscal burls and the moderates of his conference, said “it will not add debt”, when Trump was asked to take ownership of an increase in the deficit.

And he said he and Trump had the same concerns as Johnson and Paul.

“He is also worried like me, as Ron Johnson is, as Rand Paul, as we are all on the debt of the nation, and he and I are talking about it frequently, and he is delighted to change this trajectory,” he said on “Meet the Press” of NBC.

The bill sent to the Senate would also increase the limit of federal debt by $ 4 billions, another collision point with tax hawks.

“There is nothing in a fiscally conservative way to expand the ceiling of the debt more than we have never done before,” said Paul after the bill went through the House two weeks ago. “It will be the greatest increase in the debt ceiling of all time, and the GOP has this now.”

‘Wimpy and anemic’

During an event last week in Iowa, Paul repeated his disdain for the bill, calling the current cuts “Wimpy and Anemic” and suggesting that additional reductions could arrive at administration programs like Medicaid and Social Security – areas where a line was traced by Trump and his colleagues senators of the GOP like Josh Hawley of Missouri, which called the bill On the reduction of health insurance for poor workers “Morally Trust and Political Sasouri.

Paul told CBS on Sunday “facing the nation” that he thought there were enough votes among his republican colleagues in the Senate to block the bill.

“I think there are four of us at this stage, and I would be very surprised if the bill is not changed in a good direction,” he said.

Trump called Paul during the weekend, writing on his social platform of truth that if the senator votes against the bill, “Rand will play directly in the hands of the Democrats, and the great people of Kentucky will never forgive him!”

Speaking of journalists on Monday, Leavitt suggested that there will be a price to pay for those who vote against this.

“Their voters will know it. It is unacceptable for republican voters and all voters across the country who elected this president in a republican majority to get things done in Capitol Hill,” she said.

Budget reconciliation, the tactical republicans of the congress use to have the bill adopted, is not subject to obstruction, allowing the republican majority to promulgate radical changes with a simple majority.

But changes in social security and health insurance are exempt from the rapid budgeting process. Any modification to these rights would require 60 votes and the bipartite cooperation of democrats – a republican prospect is not entertaining because they are part of the bill.

Paul called for higher spending reductions in order to increase the debt limit is not part of this bill. The secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, called on the congress to increase the limit of statutory debt by the end of July to prevent the country of default on its debt obligations.

“I want [Trump’s 2017] Tax reductions to be permanent. But at the same time, I don’t want to increase the debt ceiling by five Billion Billions, “he told CBS on Sunday.” The GOP will hold the debt once they vote for it. “”

Senator Johnson, a notable tax hawk, also strongly pointed out that he would not support the bill in his current form, since he adds to the debt.

“It is so far from the brand. It is so bad,” he told the journalists of the Capitol when the Chamber was still advancing the bill through the rules committee. “I tried to interjection to reality. I tried to intervey the facts and the figures. They are on my side.”

Large or beautiful?

During a writer on Wednesday in Milwaukee organized by Wispolitics and the Milwaukee Press Club, Johnson said there was “no pressure” that Trump could exert on him to support him in his current form.

Questioned on Sunday on “Sunday Morning Futures” of Fox News if he was ready to push until exploding the Trump agenda, Johnson stressed that his loyalty was with the American people.

“I want to see [Trump] succeed. But again, my loyalty is towards the American people, towards my children and my grandchildren. We cannot continue to mortgage their future, “said Johnson.

Trump advisor Elon Musk, who left the White House on Friday after his role as employee of the special government, reached its 130 -day limit, broke out publicly with the president in an interview with CBS a few days earlier in which he declared that he was “disappointed” by the massive spending bill.

“I think that a bill can be great or that it can be beautiful,” Musk told CBS News, “but I don’t know if it can be both. My personal opinion.”

-Abc News’ Isabella Murray and Kelsey Walsh contributed to this report.