The Senate Republicans will try to trace a path to follow for the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” during a series of meetings on Wednesday – including one where President Donald Trump will work to consolidate the support of the Megabill which advances its legislative program.
Republican members of the powerful Senate finance committee met Trump in the White House on Wednesday afternoon and emerged that the Republicans were unified to try to adopt the legislation.
“This is a team effort, and everyone is going to row in the same direction to get this through the finish line,” said the head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, after the meeting.
While Elon Musk was making a total war against Bill on X, inside the Capitol, where the manufacture of sausages started seriously, there were much less fireworks.
The Republicans met in camera on Wednesday for a complete meeting of the conference to discuss the bill. It was the first of a certain number of these meetings provided to give chairs committees the opportunity to describe their visions for specific changes to the respective bill to their individual committees.
At this stage, it is still not clear how the Senate intends to move forward on the massive package before the deadline of July 4 of Trump.
The conference is beginning to resolve specific issues related to the bill. At their meeting on Wednesday, the senators said they had heard chairs of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Commerce Committee on proposals in the package that affected them.
“I think that the Senate Republicans support the bill, but making it better than the Chamber has done,” said senator John Cornyn, R-Texas, leaving the meeting. “We are not yet close to the final bill.”
The meeting among the Republicans of the Senate intervened for a few moments before a certain number of Republicans of the Senate finance committee embarked on a white bus and go to the White House for their meeting with Trump.
The finance committee is responsible for writing the components of the bill of the bill, including the extension of Trump 2017 tax reductions, a key priority for the package.
The legislation adopted in the House also stimulates expenses for military and border security – while making cuts in the Medicaid, SNAP and others assistance programs. He could also add 2.4 billions of dollars to the deficit in the next decade, according to a new analysis on Wednesday by the budget of the non -partisan congress budget.
President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference with Elon Musk (not represented) in the Oval Ovale Bureau of the White House, in Washington, DC, United States, on May 30, 2025.
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Republican senator Ron Johnson, who disagrees with the White House and puts pressure on deeper cuts than those of the bill that the Chamber sent them, was also to be in Reunion as a member of the Committee.
Appearing on ABC News Live Wednesday, Johnson attacked the bill, saying that it “does not meet”.
Thune has so far not specified what will be its strategy to move the packaging in the upper room. While things are held currently, he can afford to lose only three of his GOP members to pass the package, and at the moment, he has more members than that expressing serious doubts about the bill.
“We are going to do it, in one way or another, and it will not be easy,” Thune told journalists after the meeting with Trump.
Trump’s meeting with the committee was an opportunity for the president to try to influence the senators who have concerns about the bill. Earlier this week, Trump worked on phones and took meetings with many of these senators, including the Republican senses. Rand Paul, Josh Hawley, Rick Scott and Johnson.
Trump also met Thune to talk about the bill supported by the Chamber through the Senate as quickly as possible.
“We are going to do everything we can here in the Senate and in the House to pass this agenda through the finish line and yes, there will be people who will be detractors and points of view and opinions and everything is good and good. But in the Senate, these are 51 votes.
A view of the American Capitol, on May 7, 2025, in Washington.
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Thune has been handling carefully in recent days, coordinating closely with Trump while the Senate sails in this bill.
“The president is closest and, finally, it will be up to him to help bring some of these votes home,” said Thune.
Trump is working to appease the concerns of senators at the same time as Musk attacks the online bill, calling it a “disgusting abomination” in an article on X Tuesday. Musk even reprimanded those who supported the bill.
Musk’s criticism on the President’s expenses on the President’s expenses provided political coverage to the Senate Republicans who have concerns. But for others, it also aroused frustration.
The republican senator Thom Tillis had a blunt message for Musk: “Give us productive comments on which we can operate.”
“I mean, it is someone who has had a lot of insight on the American government in the last six months. Give us productive comments on which we can operate. I cannot operate on platitudes or I cannot answer,” said Tillis, who will attend the White House meeting.
Republican senator Tommy Tuberville suggested that he “does not think” that “Musk’s position would have a significant impact on senators who try to adopt the bill, but agreed with the billionaire in his criticism of federal spending.
“You know, he looks at him in a different way from the one we have to look at, because we are once again those who have to vote for that and we are we – we also have to look at the good. Nothing is perfect,” said Tuberville about Musk.
Republican senator John Kennedy supported Musk says he is rightly “frustrated” that “we quickly become debt slaves”.
“I want him to say just what he thinks. Listen, I think Mr. Musk-I’m a big fan of Musk. I think he is really intelligent. I think he is entitled to his opinion,” he said. “He is frustrated. I think he believes, in my opinion, rightly, that we quickly become slaves of the debt, that the congress must rearore the power of magic healing of` “ ” and I agree with this. That said, I am not ready to throw in the towel on this bill. “
Thune has recognized that the coming road will be difficult.
“The wheels are in motion on this subject,” he said. “As I have already said, failure is not an option. We will do it in one way or another, and it will not be easy.”
-Abc News’ Mary Bruce, Molly Nagle and Kelsey Walsh contributed to this report.
