GOP Senators: Big Beautiful Bill Falls Short on Debt

At least four Senate Republicans are saying they support many of the components of President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill,” but they fear the House-passed legislation falls short of reducing annual federal deficits that are projected to keep growing and say it is already creating issues in the bond market. 

“I want to get a deal done; I support the president’s agenda,” Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., commented about the bill, reports The Hill Tuesday. “I support the border; I support the military; I support extending the Trump tax cuts, but we have to live in reality…we have got a fiscal crisis.”

He added that “we’re having trouble selling our long bonds already.”

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