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Trump's funding bill runs into Senate GOP fiscal hawks [View all]
(ABC News) As the Senate prepares to put its imprint on President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act this week, Republicans are grappling over the potential impact the megabill might have on the national debt, which has ballooned to nearly $37 trillion.
With a 10-year budget bill, deficit hawks in the Senate like Rand Paul and Ron Johnson are drawing a red line — pushing for deeper cuts than those in the bill the House sent to them.
As lawmakers aim to send a bill to Trump by the Fourth of July, those demands could complicate the Senate's calculus for passage — where Republicans can only afford three defections.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-big-beautiful-bill-survive-193226018.html
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