President Donald Trump and speakers Mike Johnson hoped to modify the minimum in the senate for “a large, beautiful” bill that was passed by the Parliament last week, but a Republican senator said there was enough resistance to stop the bill unless there was a significant change.
“The first goal of our budget reconciliation process is to reduce the deficit. This is actually increasing,” Senator Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Said “State of the Union” CNN on Sunday, urged deeper expenditure than those in the Bill to rearrange to “Reasonable Pre-Pange Expenditures.”
“I think we have enough to stop the process until the president is serious about reducing expenses and reducing deficits,” Johnson said.
Republicans use budgeting tactics called reconciliation, which only requires a simple majority to be passed, to get a package through both rooms and to Trump’s table. But every change in the Senate will ask for a bill to return to the DPR, where he was passed by only one vote between the Republican Conference which was divided last week.
President Donald Trump, along with the speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson spoke to the media after his meeting with House Republicans about what was called the ‘Big Big Bill’ in Washington, May 20, 2025.
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Speaker Johnson made a round on the conversation ceremony on this week to maintain the bill and encourage the senate to pass it without too much change.
“I encourage them, you know, to do their work, of course, as we all anticipate. But to make modifications as little as possible on this package, because considering that we must pass it once again to ratify their changes in the DPR,” Johnson told “State of the Union.” “And I have a very subtle balance here, a very fine balance that we have achieved for a long period of time. And you should not interfere with it too much.”
The speaker emphasized the need to speed up the Bill and expressed hope that the President could sign it on Independence Day.
“Why is that so important? Because we have to get relief to the American people, and that we also need, for political purposes, show a lot of time, enough time for everyone to see that this package is actually what we say. This will help the country, it will help the economy,” he said.
But Senator Johnson criticized the process that was rushed, saying, “You have to do the job, which requires time. It is part of the problem. The problem here is that we have been rushed to this process. We have not taken the time. We have done the same old way, freeing most of the programs.”
Another problem with the Bill in the Senate is that he lifts the debt ceiling, which according to some Senator GOP they want to deal separately rather than adding it to the package that cuts expenses and makes Trump 2017 tax deductions permanent.
Senator Rand Paul asks the Secretary of Health and Human Service
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Senator Republic Rand Paul told “Fox News Sunday” that he would not choose the law unless the increase in the debt ceiling was stripped because he said it would “explode the deficit.”
He said the cutting of the bill expenditure was “weak and anemia.”
“The problem is that mathematics does not increase,” he said.
Asked about Paul’s criticism during an interview with CBS “Face the Nation,” speaker Johnson was asked if he was sure the law was “economic betting.”
“No, this is not an economic betting. This is a big investment,” Johnson said. “What will be done by this Bill is to become jet fuel to the US economy, foster a pro-growth economy. What we mean by that? We reduce taxes, reduce regulations. We will increase and provide incentives to American manufacturing. The effect will occur on the economy is that entrepreneurs and risk taking and people who are more easily done by people.
Johnson said criticism of the increase in debt “was dramatically exaggerated.”
“The same groups can objectively see and acknowledge that this is the biggest cutting in expenditure in at least 30 years, and arguably all time, we cut more than $ 1.5 trillion in federal spending while we examine all boxes and carry the pro-growth economy,” he said.
And while the Congress budget office estimates that the bill will increase a deficit of $ 3.8 trillion, speaker Johnson said because CBO did not conduct a dynamic assessment, “They do not take into account the growth that will be fostered by all the policies that exist in this case, this is, a large part of this law.”
In addition to expanding Trump 2017 tax cuts, this bill increased expenditure for military and border security and made several cuts for Medicaid, SNAP and other assistance programs.
CBO Preliminary Analysis of the Bill, which was requested by the Democrats of the DPR and completed before being passed by the DPR, estimated that the lowest -income Americans would see their resources reduced while the highest producer in the country would see an increase.
This bill will implement new work requirements for Medicaid-which targets adults and healthy immigrants, among other beneficiaries and provide incentives to the state not to expand Medicaid. CBO estimates that it will produce less $ 698 billion in federal subsidies due to changes in the Medicaid program.
Early CBO estimates put the number of people who could lose more than 8 million – but that number continued to fluctuate and CBO has not released the final score of the GOP Bill because it continues to be negotiated.
Johnson and Trump have stated that the bill did not cut Medicaid but eradicate “waste, fraud, and abuse.”
“We do not cut Medicaid in this package,” Johnson told Jake Tapper CNN. “There is a lot of wrong information out there about this, Jake. The number of Americans affected is those who are intertwined in our work to eliminate fraud, waste and harassment.”
“You talk about 4.8 million capable workers, young men, for example, who are in Medicaid and do not work. They choose not to work when they can. It is called fraud. They deceive the system. When you eradicate such harassment, you do things here.