Faced with changes the Senate made to the “one big, beautiful bill” that added fewer deficit reduction measures and more spending, House Republicans had to negotiate a “sidecar bill” to rein spending back into control, Rep. Andy Harris, who chairs the House Freedom Caucus, said on Newsmax Saturday. 

“The major sticking point was that when the bill passed out of the House, it was pretty reasonable. It balanced. It wasn’t going to cause an increase in the deficit,” the Maryland Republican commented on Newsmax’s “Saturday Agenda.”

“We had to negotiate an agreement that would reverse some of which the Senate did, without sending the bill back to the Senate,” he added. “That didn’t happen until the wee hours of Thursday morning, literally 1:30 in the morning. We came to the agreement, and we passed the ‘one big, beautiful bill.'”

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