The Senate GOP budget plan designed to usher President Trump’s sweeping domestic priorities into law is getting an ice-cold reception from Republicans in the House, where conservatives are balking at the low levels of mandated spending cuts and the heightened deficits that could result.

But after Trump’s endorsement of the plan, House Republicans face enormous pressure to give the president a victory on his top campaign promises, including an extension of tax cuts, new limits on immigration and a boost in domestic energy production. That pressure will likely grow in the face of the fallout from Trump’s new tariffs, which sent markets plummeting on Thursday and threatened a global recession.

The budget debate is just the latest challenge for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and his leadership team, who are already struggling to resolve an internal battle over proxy voting for new parents — one that’s shut down floor activity indefinitely — and will soon confront the dilemma of how to approach the Senate budget blueprint in the face of the uproar within their House GOP conference.

If the early response is any indication, they have their work cut out.

"THE SENATE VERSION IS DEAD ON ARRIVAL," Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), a member of the hardline conservative House Freedom Caucus, wrote in a text message, "among many of our Freedom Caucus members as well as other conservatives who are concerned about the lack of cuts in the Senate bill."

"What they sent back was not a serious counter to our House version," he added.

“The Senate budget bill is really offensive; quite frankly, it’s a joke,” Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) said Thursday. “[T]his is offensive and so I’m a hard no on this junk.”

Conservatives like Ogles are up in arms specifically over the Senate’s proposal requiring upper-chamber committees to locate at least $4 billion in specific cuts to federal spending — a microscopic fraction of the $1.5 trillion minimum in cuts mandated under the budget blueprint adopted by the House in February.

“Look, $1.5 trillion, that was a serious offer from the House of Representatives,” Ogles said. “A $3 to $4........

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