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EXCLUSIVE: House Conservative Says He Can’t Be Pressured To Support Senate’s Version Of Trump Bill

Republican South Carolina Rep. Ralph Norman is a major fiscal hawk and urges the Senate to think twice before sending the House of Representatives a budget bill that would increase the shortfalls or curb conservative policies in its initial House proposal.

Norman considering running For the governor of South Carolina in 2026, he told the Daily Calller News Foundation in an interview Thursday that he could not support the Senate proposals currently written. Members of the House Freedom Caucus were responsible for the Senate’s plan because they were unable to maintain the house-passed language to eliminate the end of the Green Energy Tax enacted under former President Joe Biden and the elimination of regulations that would reduce the many deficits that Sen. Elizabeth McDonough had hit from the bill. (Related: Major House of Representatives calling Senate Bluffs on Trump’s “Beautiful” Bill)

“If they kick out a lot of things, it won’t die here,” Norman told DCNF. “The bill we sent out there must be a large portion back so that it is or improves it.”

“I don’t think that’s going on,” Norman added.

Norman is in a cohort of conservative House Republicans who threaten to kill the Senate proposal when he arrives in the House. Many conservative Republicans have asserted that the Senate bill should not increase budget deficits and should not adhere to the House framework, which combines tax cuts with mutual spending cuts.

Republican lawmaker Michael Cloud, who is also a member of the Freedom Caucus, told the DCNF Thursday that the Senate should amend the course before passing a bill that could increase deficit spending up to $1 trillion.

President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful” bill is currently under consideration in the Senate. In the Senate, majority leader John Tune is competing on Saturday to vote for the Upper Chamber proposal. Trump repeatedly requested the bill on his desk by July 4th.

The Cleaning Tax and Immigration Bill will forever extend the president’s 2017 tax cuts, lower federal income tax rates nationwide, protect him from taxation on wages and overtime wages that certain Americans leaned, and provide hundreds of billions of new funding for immigration enforcement and defense priorities.

Norman said he and his fellow conservatives are ready to support a budget package that reflects the bill that leads to the first home, unless the deficit is kept to a minimum. It could be a high hurdle as it strikes a string of proposals to reduce the deficit from the Senate proposal, an unelected official with great influence in the Senate.

Norman warns that House conservatives will be hampered by the Senate and support legislation that will deviate significantly from the first House product or increase deficit spending significantly.

“we [will] Norman said.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – May 21: (LR) House Freedom Caucus members, Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), Ralph Norman (R-SC), and Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) leave House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) during the continuous negotiation between House Leadership and House Freedom Caucus’s leadership, during the continuous negotiation between House Leadership and House Freedom Caucus. Washington, DC 2025. (Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

House conservatives have previously spoken in a tough battle in the fiscal war over government funding and the first House Pass bill.

Norman vote For the House version of the bill passed through the House on May 22nd. He chose to support the law after the House Freedom Caucus secured an array of conservative policy victories in its final bill. He voted against advances in previous versions of the House Budget Committee’s law, saying reforms to Medicaid and Green Energy tax credits are inadequate.

Lawmakers told the DCNF that even the president’s request would be wrong if they thought would increase the budget deficit, or swallow a budget package that would either revert green energy tax credits very easily, or repeatedly exploit green energy tax credits.

“This is different from any other time,” Norman said. “When you’re trying to sign something, if it’s just an expense, then that’s not fair to Americans.”

“We have the opportunity to reclaim this country and return it to the solvency path,” Norman added.

Cloud similarly called $37 trillion in debt as a “existential” threat to the country’s long-term prosperity.

“It’s just as existential crisis as you know some of the geopolitical things President Trump has been openly dealing with,” Cloud said. “We can’t continue doing that [deficit spending]. ”

WASHINGTON, DC – May 30: House Freedom Caucus Members (LR), Byron Donald (R-FL), Ralph Norman (R-SC) and Michael Cloud (R-TX) arrived at a press conference and announced on May 30 that he would oppose raising debt restrictions with fellow caucus members outside the U.S. Capitol. (Photo by Somodevilla/Getty Images)

One area where House conservatives can feel they can pressure the Senate to adopt or push them beyond the House Pass language is accelerating the end of the Green Energy Tax breakthrough.

The president notably showed his support for the immediate end of the green energy tax credit on the Truth Sunday Post on social media platforms, claiming, “It’s time to finally break away from this insanity!!”

“It has to go,” Norman told DCNF. “The president wants that. He wants to abolish all of them. We agree.”

However, the Senate’s draft plan created more flexibility in phasing out solar and wind taxes than the House Pass bill that GOP senators advocated. I went too far.

Steve Scullies, leader of the House Majority I said A reporter on Thursday said the Senate’s more generous approach to the Green Energy Tax Credit “should be reversed.”

“Deviation is not in the direction of going,” Scalise said.

Both Norman and Cloud suggested that the president’s bill was the best opportunity to change the fiscal trajectory of Congress, and that they would not let them escape without fighting.

“It’s hard to imagine another opportunity we have right now, with Republican leaders and the president who is willing to do something transformative and bold,” Cloud said.

Norman agreed, telling the DCNF that he would not wait for future bills to cut government spending.

“There’s one chance for this,” Norman said. “The only leverage you have to take these people here to be conservative is the tax bill.”

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