Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., told Newsmax on Monday that Republicans must avoid risking their majority in the House when passing the wide-ranging tax and spending legislation being debated by the Senate this week and should save the “steep cuts” desired by some for a later bill.

Senators on Monday began a marathon voting process to determine what amendments may or may not be made to the GOP-led tax and spending bill, with many GOP holdouts calling for steeper cuts to federal spending.

Gimenez told “National Report” that “what we’re doing is shifting the trajectory” of federal spending. “The trajectory is pretty steep … on spending,” and legislators must bring “that trajectory down and then eventually level it off and then start to pay off our debt,” he added.

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