Senate adopts new budget for Trump's agenda after GOP cracks emerge
Despite the successful vote, the preceding debate revealed intra-party divisions over key issues like Medicaid, tax-cut strategy and the debt, which complicate the task ahead.
WASHINGTON — Multiple House Republican lawmakers vowed on Saturday to reject the sweeping budget plan that Senate Republicans passed overnight.
Reps. Andy Harris, R-Md., and Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, the chairs of the House Freedom Caucus and the House Budget Committee, slammed the Senate bill in separate statements Saturday.
Harris said he was "unconvinced" by the topline budget cuts Senate Republicans signed off on overnight, saying, "I can’t support House passage of the Senate changes to our budget resolution until I see the actual spending and deficit reduction plans to enact President [Donald] Trump’s America First agenda."
Arrington called the Senate bill "unserious and disappointing," saying that, "President Trump has been working at warp speed to root out billions in wasteful and fraudulent spending."
He added, “The House followed suit by sending the Senate a fiscally responsible budget resolution that included the entirety of President Trump’s America First agenda—pro-growth tax cuts, border and defense funding, deregulation, American energy production, and enforceable spending cuts that would reduce our nation’s debt-to-GDP putting our budget on a path to balance."
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