Hamza Adam 
About a dozen House Republicans were refusing to go along with the Senate’s budget blueprint Wednesday that would give President Trump the “big beautiful bill” he has been wanting.
Trump tried to pressure Republicans to acquiesce by posting to social media Wednesday, writing, “It is IMPERATIVE that Republicans in the House pass the Tax Cut Bill, NOW! Our Country Will Boom!!!”
At issue are changes to the proposed spending cuts made by the Senate.
CNN’s Manu Raju reported, “In the initial House proposal, they proposed about $1.5 trillion in spending cuts, but the Senate Republicans had some concerns about that. They changed that. They made it as a minimum number of cuts at $4 billion, a major discrepancy between the House and the Senate.”
Raju chased down one of the conservative holdouts, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), to ask how the House planned to resolve the issue.
“What is your concern about the Senate’s plan right now?” Raju asked.
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Biggs responded, “Their plan is unserious, I think is the bottom line. and If you were to look at the Senate plan, what we see is they’re proposing $4 billion in cuts over 10 years. And we got a $2.25 trillion-a-year structural deficit that needs to be addressed, and they’re not really addressing that.”
Since Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was planning to call a House vote on the bill Wednesday, Raju asked, “How could you possibly get to yes?”
“I continue to talk. I continue to work. See what we can find out,” Biggs answered.
Raju said that if the bill is approved, it would mean a “massive overhaul of the United States tax code.”
It “would include those spending cuts, would have new…energy drilling projects, and also a whole host of money for immigration enforcement measures, really implementing the Trump agenda,” Raju said.
He added, “This is actually supposed to be the easy step, to approve the budget blueprint, but given the concerns, it shows you how much more work the president has to actually get his agenda onto his desk.”
