14 GOP Lawmakers Voice ‘Major Concerns’ With ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

Republican leaders are racing to pass the Trump-endorsed One Big Beautiful Bill Act by Independence Day, but more than a dozen GOP members of Congress still harbor major concerns that could tank the giant package.

The House-passed OBBBA, a multitrillion-dollar budget reconciliation bill implementing President Donald Trump’s major policy priorities, has undergone Senate committee revisions and is currently under the Senate parliamentarian’s review.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., made a variety of delicate compromises to placate Republican factions in his chamber, narrowly passing the bill in May after months of assembling it.

Johnson helped accelerate the phaseout of Inflation Reduction Act subsidies and reform entitlement programs like Medicaid and SNAP to help offset the bill’s 10-year extension of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The bill’s total of $1.7 trillion in spending cuts won over enough fiscal hawks — including Reps. Chip Roy, R-Texas; Ralph Norman, R-S.C.; Andrew Clyde, R-Ga.; and Josh Brecheen, R-Okla.; — for the bill to pass.

The speaker also compromised with Blue-state Republicans who wanted a higher state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap, settling on a $40,000 cap to place New York Reps. Rep. Mike Lawler, Nick LaLota, Andrew Garbarino and Elise Stefanik.

But, as The Center Square reported, Senate committees have either significantly scaled back or completely removed those very compromises in their revisions to the bill, alienating not only those lawmakers but also some in their own chamber.