Sen. Marsha Blackburn told Newsmax that Senate Republicans aim to further trim the wide-ranging spending package that passed the House earlier this month, with the aim of reducing the federal budget to around $6.5 trillion.
The Tennessee Republican told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America” on Friday, “What we are going to do is take the House version of the reconciliation bill … through the Byrd Rule process, that’s called the birdbath, and then it will be to us when we return on Monday.”
The senator said, “I’m looking forward to that. The House made $1.5 trillion in cuts, the Senate goal is to do $2 trillion in cuts. We would like to hit that number so that we’re at a $6.5 trillion budget, down from the House number, and then we’re able to begin pushing toward President Trump’s goal of having a balanced budget.”
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