No changes, we won't accept your Trump agenda bill

WASHINGTON - When House Republicans scramble to pass a vote to pass a massive bill on President Donald Trump’s agenda, their Senate colleagues show that emerging plans won’t fly like they do when they arrive.

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"No. We will make a change," Huowen said. "We've been talking to the house and we agree with a lot of things. … But there are many areas that change."

House members wouldn't be surprised to learn that their Senate colleagues wanted to put their fingerprints on the final ten million dollar package. But Republican senators have begun to identify various provisions in their revised House measures — from Medicaid to clean energy funding to spectrum policy and overall red ink.

R-Wis. Senator Ron Johnson opposes emerging House legislation this week, saying it will explode the U.S. budget deficit.

"I can't see any situation where it will be deficit neutral. That's my problem," he told NBC News. "Based on my calculations, this will increase the deficit by $4 trillion."

"They want to reduce spending by about 1.3%. It's a rounding error. It's totally inadequate," Johnson said.

Republicans have 53 senators, meaning they can only win Democrats and only lose three votes before the bill collapses. They have lost R-Ky. Senator Rand Paul, who wants a steeper cut. Democrats are calling Republicans to try to reduce the heat of energy funds in the inflation bill, highlighting the economic and national security benefits of the 2022 law.

R-alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune last month, with three other Republicans warning that the “termination” of certain clean energy tax credits will be enacted in 2022, “will create uncertainty, jeopardize capital allocation, long-term project plans, long-term project plans, and work in our energy sector, as well as our entire energy sector and across our economy and economy.”

The tax rules for the House committee writing parcels seek to repeal major subsidies for electric vehicles and aim to phase out other clean energy tax benefits adopted in the Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law by then-President Joe Biden.

On Wednesday, Murkowski told NBC News that she, John Curtis, R-utah, Thom Tillis, R-NC and R-Kansas, Jerry Moran of R-Kansas, “It is clear that we need to take a caution to get the energy tax credit and make sure we don’t lose some of the good investments we build.”

Senator Josh Hawley, R-Mo. It has also been warned that Medicaid has been cut as House bills attempt to impose work requirements and provider funding restrictions imposed by critics.

"I won't support Medicaid benefits," Hawley told NBC News on Tuesday, adding that he had "concerns" about the housing bill because of the implications for rural hospitals in his state.

He later wrote on X: "I don't want to see rural hospitals close their doors because funds are being cut. I also don't like the idea of ​​hidden taxes for working poor people. That's why this home bill in my current form is not suitable."

Hawley's concerns were shared by Murkowski and R-Maine Senator Susan Collins, who voted last month against the budget framework citing concerns about Medicaid cuts that hurt her state.

Another issue that Senate Republicans want to revise is R-Ky. House Energy and Business Chairman Brett Guthrie said it would renew “the FCC’s spectrum auction agency and provide resources to modernize federal information technology systems” and save $88 billion.

"I had the opportunity to actually see the language of spectrum issues. Obviously it has to be corrected," said Sen. Mike Rounds, Rs.D.

Senator Deb Fischer, R-Neb. It said the policy needs to go further and further, and she “did not accept it in the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

R-La. Speaker Mike Johnson hopes to guide the measure through the House Budget Committee on Friday and pass the entire bill (and some changes) before Memorial Day.

Senator Thom Tillis, RN.C., who will be re-election in competitive states next year, said the Senate will need to review Medicaid cuts, clean energy currencies and other policies before making a decision.

Tillis also said the Senate was not passionate about the policy of the draft House bill, which raised state and local tax relief to $30,000, up from $10,000. Unlike housing, there are no Republican senators in high-tax blue states, "salt" is a big problem.

"I think this is an area we need to consider," Tillis said.