These are the changes Senate Republicans are eyeing for the GOP’s ‘big, beautiful bill’

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 These are the changes Senate Republicans are eyeing for the GOP’s ‘big, beautiful bill’
by Alexander Bolton, Rachel Frazin and Al Weaver - 05/23/25 2:19 PM ET

Senate Republicans say they’re going to rewrite the 1,116-page bill the House narrowly passed Thursday to enact President Trump’s agenda.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) urged GOP senators at a meeting Tuesday to keep their changes to the bill as minimal as possible to avoid wrecking the delicate compromises he cobbled together in the House to muster 215 votes for the legislation.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), however, told reporters that the Senate will have its “imprint” on the bill, and his GOP colleagues are looking to make changes to an array of provisions.

Here are some of the changes they are eyeing.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5316382-these-are-the-changes-senate-republicans-are-eyeing-to-the-gops-big-beautiful-bill/

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Deficit reduction

Senate conservatives led by Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) want to include bigger spending cuts in the bill, arguing to colleagues that the legislation, as drafted in the House, will do little to rein in spending.

Ron Johnson isn’t laying out specific cuts but calling for a return to prepandemic levels of federal spending adjusted for inflation and population growth.

“My primary focus now is spending. This is completely unacceptable. Current projections are $2.2 trillion per year deficit,” he said. “There should be a goal of this Republican Senate to reduce the deficit, not increase it. We’re increasing it.”

So much for DOGE.  Republicans finally pass a budget, and the shortfall is higher than it was with Biden.

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Senate GOP Planning ‘Changes’ to House-Passed Version of ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

Senate Republicans are gearing up to make some “changes” to their version of the House of Representatives’ “big, beautiful, bill” before they try to pass it by Independence Day, multiple lawmakers said.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/23/senate-gop-planning-changes-to-house-passed-version-of-big-beautiful-bill/

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 House Republicans warn Senate GOP against watering down Trump agenda bill
by Mike Lillis, Mychael Schnell and Emily Brooks - 05/24/25 6:00 AM ET

House Republicans are sending a clear and early warning to their Senate allies as the bill encompassing President Trump’s domestic priorities heads to the upper chamber: Don’t water it down.

House GOP leaders spent weeks in delicate talks with Republican holdouts before cobbling together a fragile agreement that could thread the needle between conservatives’ demands for more spending cuts and moderates’ insistence on a controversial tax break.

As the massive package heads to the Senate, the critical voices of the House debate — blue-state Republicans, hardliners and party leaders — are cautioning their upper-chamber counterparts not to alter their design too severely, or it will never get through the House on its return.

The warnings forecast a coming clash between Republicans in the two chambers, since many senators are already saying they can’t support the package without substantial changes.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5316628-house-republicans-senate-gop-trump-agenda-bill/