‘Not quite yet beautiful’: Republicans at odds over spending cuts after meeting Trump
Senate Republicans aren’t seeing eye to eye with their colleagues in the House over places to cut spending in order to pay for their extension of the 2017 Trump tax cuts.
GOP members of the Senate Finance Committee met Thursday with President Trump, seeking to get on the same page about tax and spending issues after the House passed a budget resolution at the end of February outlining $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and between $1.5 and $2 trillion in spending cuts.
The resolution compels the Energy and Commerce Committee in the House to come up with nearly $900 billion in spending cuts, which will likely require them to slash funding for the popular Medicaid healthcare program.
Trump has said he wants his agenda — spanning tax cuts, border security and expanded........
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