Armed with leverage over the future of President Donald Trump’s policy agenda and little faith in Congress, Republican fiscal hawks are holding the White House’s feet to the fire to force deep federal budget cuts.
The White House and congressional leaders have dangled an array of cost-cutting options to weary Republican holdouts concerned about the national debt, from rescission legislation for codifying Department of Government Efficiency cuts to congressional appropriations to a Congress-White House review panel to make line-by-line reductions.
With the House lining up with the Senate on Thursday on a GOP budget blueprint to ultimately unlock Trump’s tax, border, and energy priorities, those Republicans who were promised steep spending reductions will soon come to collect.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Majority Leader
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