President Donald Trump and House Speaker Johnson (R-LA) have their hands full in the House in terms of the budget legislation that is working its way through Congress right now.
The Senate bill seems to be the best hope they have of getting a bill passed in time, but there is a contingent of Republican House members who are still not willing to support the legislation.
If they continue to resist, it will be a huge problem for Trump, because time is running out to pass this budget.
Not happening
There have been reports that Trump has been reaching out to the dozen or so members of the Freedom Caucus who are not supporting the legislation.
However, those members are standing firm that they will not back the bill if they do not believe it is fully funded and or if it will increase the deficit.
On Tuesday, the group of holdouts reportedly met with Trump at the White House, but it did not appear to make a dent in their stance.
For instance, Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD), the chair of the Freedom Caucus, stated, “There’s nothing that I can hear at the White House that I don’t understand about the situation.”
Harris declined to attend the meeting.
He added, “It’s not going to help getting enough votes to pass this week. It’s just, there are too many members who are just not going to vote for it no matter what.”
Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) added, “I think that because what the Senate sent over is so financially immoral, that it doesn’t matter how much pressure. There’s many of us that can’t swallow it.”
This group has been adamant that if that budget is put on the floor, it has no chance of passing right now.
To that point, Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) stated, “I want to end up with deficit reduction, I want to end up with tax cuts, but I haven’t seen it so far.
“We’ve just got an impasse, we’ve got to work through it,” he added.
This group will be criticized by the Trump administration and MAGA, but I support what they are doing.
We are more than $36 trillion in debt as a nation, and we cannot have a budget that will add another $2 trillion to that debt, which is what reports say the budget as is will do.
And you cannot justify a budget that has a deficit with DOGE savings, as we need to use those savings to start to dig ourselves out of the hole we are in, not just break even.
Cuts need to be made, and wasteful spending must be stopped, and that includes everyone in this administration, including Trump. That is what he ran on, that is what was promised, and that is what must be delivered.
Do not attack people and call them RINOs simply because they want to hold Trump and his administration accountable for promises made during the election.
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Author: G. McConway
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