Fearing defections, Trump and McConnell crank up pressure on a Senate budget vote
Senate Republican leaders and President Donald Trump are working to whip up support for their bipartisan, $2.7 trillion budget deal, hoping to stave off embarrassing defections ahead of a vote that’s splitting the party.trying to persuade undecided rank-and-file senators to avoid a replay of last week’s debacle in the House, when roughly two-thirds of House Republicans opposed the deal, according to multiple senators and aides.
Asked about the level of support in his party, McConnell would only say the budget deal “will have to pass this week.” The Senate is scheduled to leave for a month-long recess at the end of the week. Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. Rick Scott said Tuesday they will oppose the deal. So too will Sen. Pat Toomey , a fiscal conservative worried about raising the debt ceiling. Sens. Tim Scott and Mike Crapo lean no, they said.
“On the one hand we've got to make sure we provide enough certainty, particularity around defense. On the other hand, we ought to start having a serious discussion around our debt,” Tillis said. But many Republicans have grimaced at the idea of abolishing Congress’s stiff budget caps without another attempt to constrain the deficit, at a time when the federal government is set to borrow $1 trillion for the second year in a row. Less than a quarter of the new spending is paid for, and those offsets — which were just half of what White House officials had sought — are unlikely to ever take effect. Just 65 of 197 House Republicans supported the deal last week.
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