Senate Republicans put House on notice: We won't accept your Trump agenda bill without changes

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Source: NBC News

Senate Republicans put House on notice: We won't accept your Trump agenda bill without changes

GOP senators have raised concerns about the deficit impact of the emerging package, as well as the cuts to Medicaid and clean energy funding.

May 15, 2025, 5:44 PM EDT
By Sahil Kapur, Julie Tsirkin and Frank Thorp V

WASHINGTON — As House Republicans scramble to corral the votes to pass a massive bill for President Donald Trump's agenda, their Senate counterparts are making clear the emerging package won’t fly as written when it reaches them.

Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., was categorical that the product coming out of various House committees cannot pass the Senate as it currently stands.

“No. We’ll make changes,” Hoeven said. “We’ve been talking with the House and there’s a lot of things we agree on. … But there’ll be changes in a number of areas.”

It wouldn’t surprise House members to learn that their Senate colleagues want to put their own fingerprints on the final multitrillion-dollar package. But Republican senators have already begun to identify a variety of provisions in the House measure that they’re targeting for revisions — from Medicaid concerns to clean energy funding to spectrum policy and overall red ink.

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[JBTaurus83]

1. This is becoming

A big mess for them similar to the messiness of the Inflation Reduction Act for us. The difference is that their side is run by morons, so let’s hope they tank the entire thing.