Two conservative GOP senators on Sunday said the “big beautiful bill” passed at President Trump’s behest by House Republicans needs to be cut down to size, signaling huge challenges in enacting Trump’s plans in the Senate.

The two GOP senators, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, are both Trump allies, but signaled they are unhappy with House legislation that they say will bust the budget.

“I think the cuts currently in theill are wimpy and anemic, but I still would support the bill even with wimpy and anemic cuts if they weren’t going to explode the debt,” Paul said in an interview on “Fox News Sunday.”

Paul had earlier said he was a hard “no” on the House GOP bill, which was passed by the House on Thursday.

On Sunday, Paul said “the math doesn’t add up” and that language allowing the government to increase the debt ceiling by $4 trillion has to be removed because it is “not conservative.”

“There’s got to be someone left in Washington who thinks debt is wrong and deficits are wrong and wants to go in the other direction,” he said.

“Somebody has to stand up and yell, ‘The emperor has no clothes,'” Paul added. “And everybody’s falling in lockstep on this, pass the ‘big, beautiful bill,’ don’t........

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