The Republicans of the House of Representatives approved the “Law of a Big Beutify bill” that covers the legislative agenda of President Donald Trump at dawn on Thursday. But cleaning the camera is only the first obstacle to the bill, which will also have to approve a meeting with a republican conference of the Senate that is already telegraphing that the changes are coming.
Trump is pressing for a quick action in his Megabill, urging the senators In an X post Act “as soon as possible” after the close victory in the house.
“We can celebrate this pass in the house for a couple of hours, but now it is the time for the Senate to work,” said White House Secretary Karoline Leavitt, during the White House press session on Thursday. “The president has a great relationship with … Leader of the majority of the Senate [John] Thune, and of course, many friends on the side of the Senate of the Hill. And expect them to take care of this bill and send it to their desk as soon as possible. “
The president of the Chamber, Mike Johnson, accompanied by Republican legislators, talks about the approval of the great invoice of exemptions and programs of President Donald Trump after a session throughout the night in the United States Capitol in Washington, on May 22, 2025.
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Senate Republicans say they have clear eyes about wanting to approve Trump’s legislative agenda in the law as quickly as possible, but they have all the intentions of modifying the bill to leave their own different mark on the package and work to change the things to which they oppose.
The majority leader, Thune, said Wednesday that “there are things that we need to adjust, modify or change,” and added that Mike Johnson’s speaker “understands and accepts it completely.”
The leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, speaks with the journalists in the Capitol after the Chamber approved the One Big Beautiful Bill, on May 22, 2025.
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The main problem that Republican senators have raised on the bill is that it adds trillions of dollars to national debt.
“[The] The invoice of the House of Representatives will add about $ 4 billion to the debt roof. The Senate bill adds $ 5 billion. There is nothing fiscally conservative about the expansion of the debt roof more than we have done before, “Republican Senator Rand Paul said Thursday.” This will be the greatest increase in debt roof, and the Republican party possesses this now … this year’s deficit will be $ 2.2 billion of the Republican party that now also possesses that. “
Some Senate Republicans are asking for more pronounced expense cuts so that the increase in the debt limit is not part of this bill.
Republican senator Ron Johnson, a remarkable fiscal hawk, has also firmly indicated that he would not support the bill in its current form, since he raises the deficit.
“It is far from the brand. It is so bad. I have been trying to intervene reality. I have been trying to intervene facts and figures,” Ron Johnson told journalists on Wednesday afternoon at the Capitol, since the Chamber still advanced the bill through the rules committee.
Senator Ron Johnson is seen in the Capitol during a series of votes, on April 3, 2025.
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“Currently, the fiscal situation is not even in the conversation in the debate of the camera. We are missing the forest talking about twigs and leaves. Medicaid, that is, that is a tree. It is a problem large enough. But all this, all this, all these small adjustments they try to make so that the agreement completely ignores the elf in the room … which says, on average, I mean, currently updated. [Congressional Budget Office] Estimation, on average, we will have a deficit of $ 2.2 billion per year, “added Senator Johnson.
Some senators of the Republican party seemed more supportive of the bill, but pointed out that significant work had to be done to pass through the upper chamber.
Republican senator Thom Tillis said “much looks pretty good,” and added that it is a “good start.”
“Even so, I think there are some opportunities for more efficiency, some more savings, and we have to analyze the details of some of the renewable investment tax credits and the tax credits of production, and I think that even if we are going to review them, we have to make sure that the companies that believe that the government were establishing this as a priority does not have many stranded costs,” he added.
The United States Capitol is seen after the Chamber approved little the agenda of the president of Donald Trump in the United States Capitol, on May 22, 2025 in Washington.
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If the Senate reorganizes the bill, runs the risk of a complicated path for the speaker in the future when the bill goes back to the Chamber. Republicans have established a deadline of July 4 for both cameras to approve the bill and take it to Trump’s desk.
To pass this mass package through the Senate is not a walk for the cake for Thune, who can only afford to lose three of its members if a vote is presented on the Senate’s floor.
The bill surpassed by the House of Representatives includes new tax cuts, cuts to social security network programs and changes in the food assistance program, SNAP, all which have led the Democrats to criticize the legislation for creating benefits for some of the richest Americans and cuts for some of the poorest.
The minority leader, Chuck Schumer, criticized the bill in A publication in X Thursday morning.
“This is not a big and beautiful bill. It’s ugly,” said Schumer. “There is nothing beautiful in eliminating people’s medical attention, forcing children to go hungry, deny communities the resources they need and increase poverty.”
Democratic Senator Patty Murray described the bill as “scam” In an X posturging all Republicans to vote no.
“Republicans of the House of Representatives do not want them to have just approved a bill that makes medical care more expensive and expels millions of people from Medicaid, all to approve tax cuts for billionaires for billionaires and giant corporations, “Murray wrote.” We need to make sure the United States knows. And we need to kill this bill in the Senate. “
Leavitt criticized Democrats as “out of contact” with Americans.
“All Democrats in the House of Representatives who voted against all these common and popular sense policies,” Leavitt said during the Informative Session of the White House Press on Thursday. “The Democratic Party has never been more radical and out of contact with the needs of the American people.”
The Senate will also have to deal with the rules that govern what can be included in said package. Ensure that the bill approves with the Senate parliamentarian could lead to additional changes in the bill that Mike Johnson will eventually have to sell to his conference in the Chamber.
While Trump now prepares to negotiate with the senators, Leavitt told the correspondent of the Bar of the White House of Abc News, Mary Bruce, that he was not aware if those conversations had already begun.
What did the Holdouts of the Republican party get?
The speaker Johnson had to work with his right flank to approve the Megabill in the camera, which he managed to do with a vote. So what changed to put those more than a dozen holdouts on board?
Not much, several hard phrases told ABC News.
After working for days to press for the most pronounced spending cuts and repeatedly criticize themselves against spending that joined the swollen national deficit, many of the holdouts yielded.
“The Caucus de la Libertad was instrumental, and we held it all the time we could to get the cuts, whenever we could. We couldn’t do it anymore. We lived to fight another day,” the Republican representative Ralph Norman told reporters.
Norman says there was no specific agreement reached between Trump, the speaker and the hard -line holdouts, even after a high -risk meeting and last launch in the White House on Wednesday.
The representative Ralph Norman arrives at a republican meeting of the Chamber at the United States Capitol on May 20, 2025 in Washington.
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The president of the Caucus of the Freedom of the Chamber, Andy Harris, would not give the bill his vote. He voted “present.”
Republican representative Keith Self, another hard link, told ABC News that he waited until the last minute to vote yes in the bill. He did not completely support the bill, but he did not want to be the one who has captured it.
“We have something … I would have preferred to go further, to be honest with you, but we did what we could, and fight against the good fight,” Self said.
This number of “more than a dozen” of Holdes also included Republicans of states such as New York and California, pressing for a higher limit in the deduction of state and local taxes. President Johnson raised that limit of his $ 30,000 to $ 40,000 proposed, and increased 1% a year from then on. That was enough to get your support.
But, for the hawks of spending, it is not clear how they can characterize this as a victory.
Leavitt said Thursday that he believes Trump would like to see the two Republican representatives who did not vote not about the bill, representatives Thomas Massie and Warren Davidson should be primary.
“I don’t think you like to see grandparents in Congress. What is the alternative? I would ask those members of Congress. Did they want to see a tax walk? Did they want to see our country go to bankruptcy? That is the alternative they try to vote no,” said Leavitt.
Sarah Beth Hensley of ABC News contributed to this report.
