Senate Republicans may struggle to accept spending cuts as deep as the $1.5 trillion included in the House GOP-passed budget resolution. That was Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s message to his members at a private lunch Tuesday, as we scooped.
So Republican senators are starting to digest what they can do with the House GOP’s reconciliation plan. House Republicans’ razor-thin majority is looming over the conversation. But there are a lot of strong opinions among Senate Republicans about both whittling down the spending cuts and growing the tax portion of the reconciliation package – a formula House deficit hawks may not like.
Thune said his conference is going to have to deal with “both the tax piece and the spending piece” in the House’s plan. And Thune told us that all the work the Senate needs to do is “not gonna happen overnight.”
