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Fiscal Hawks in the Senate Balk on Trump's domestic agenda law template

Two of the Senate of the Senate's strictest fiscal conservatives said on Sunday that they would try to force the legislative proposal for significant changes last week to provide President Trump's domestic agenda, which signals a precarious way for legislation.

Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin said about CNN that he saw the party line process of reconciliation of budget as a “only chance” to reset “an appropriate output level”.

Mr. Johnson accused the house of rushing through the process of compiling the draft law and approving laws that would ultimately increase the deficit. And he suggested that enough of his colleagues in the Senate felt the same way to make big changes.

“I think we have enough to stop the process until the President seriously spends the reduction and reduction of the deficit,” said Johnson.

Senator Rand Paul von Kentucky, another fiscal conservative, criticized the house package and said to “Fox News Sunday” that it had no concrete measures to reduce the national debt of the balth. He said that the package was “not a serious proposal” and that the Republicans should be deeper into important drivers of debt, including medical, social security and food aid programs.

“Someone has to get up and scream: 'The emperor has no clothes,” said Paul. “Conservatives have to get up and let their voice hear.”

Her resistance is undesirable news for Mr. Trump, who applied the legislators to quickly adopt legislation with his agenda, and for the spokesman for House, Mike Johnson. Last week he took part in a lunch of the Republican senators and asked them not to make the legislation that could endanger its passage through the house.

Some of the budget falcons in the house, which gave their support to the legislative template of their chamber, already made considerable reservations against the bill to vote “yes”. Mr. Johnson has warned that big changes could put their support in danger.

“We have to hand over it again to ratify their changes in the house,” said Johnson on CNN on Sunday. “And I have a very sensitive balance here, a very sensitive balance that we have achieved over a long period of time. It is best not to mix too much.”

A number of republicans have also announced that the house law could bring too deeply into the programs on which their voters are dependent on, including Medicaid and some of the credence tax credits created by the Inflation Redutation Act, the signed climate crime law of the bidges, which was passed in 2022.

Senator Josh Hawley, Missouri Republican, has become a loud opponent of determining the legislation of Medicaid and argued that the bill would harm “working people and their children”.

“Over 20 percent of the Missourians, including hundreds of thousands of children, are on Medicaid,” said Hawley on CNN in early May. “They are not on Medicaid because they want to be. They are on Medicaid because they cannot afford health insurance on the private market.”

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