With the Senate passing its own version of the “Big, Beautiful Bill” around noon on Tuesday, the significantly altered budget reconciliation goes back to the House, where Speaker Mike Johnson will attempt to swiftly send the bill to President Donald Trump’s desk before Republicans’ self-imposed deadline of July 4.

But before the Big, Beautiful Bill gets another vote on the House floor, it will have to go through the Rules Committee. Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., a member of that committee, is skeptical that the Senate’s changes to the reconciliation package can survive a vote on the House floor. He spoke to The Daily Signal before heading to the crucial Rules Committee meeting Tuesday afternoon.

“We won’t even have a copy of what is going to be considered,” Norman told The Daily Signal. “We really need to have it in print so we can see it.”

The Rules Committee will now “take it up something that is 980 pages, and nobody’s even read [it].”

While the 13-member Rules Committee is made of nine Republicans and four Democrats, the committee vote will likely be decided by a one-vote margin because Norman and fellow fiscal hawk Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, hold two of the GOP’s seats. “I don’t know how many people will vote it down in Rules Committee,” Norman said. “I’m ready to do that.”

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