House Freedom Caucus (HFC) Chairman Andy Harris warns that he is making a bet if the Senate GOP leadership attempts to force President Donald Trump to swallow an upper chamber version of the “big and beautiful” bill.
Harris, who leads the conservative side of the House Republican Congress, told the Daily Carener News Foundation in an interview Wednesday that he was ready to fight the Senate proposal. HFC’s chairman is not alone Pledge Vote against the current Senate bill and predicted that if Mike Johnson moved to put the Senate proposal on the floor, it would not pass the House. (Related: Ron Johnson has a rebellious response to Trump’s “big and beautiful” bill warning)
“They’re going to lose their bet,” Harris told the DCNF about whether they would put pressure on them to support the current Senate bill. The HFC chair was the only GOP MP to vote for a “presentation” on the bill that was housepassed. Quote That the law significantly reduced deficit spending and did not eradicate Medicaid’s “waste, fraud, and abuse.”
Harris’ warning is that the shot that will not accept Senate changes that will roll back reforms passed in the Senate or increase deficit spending, as Senate majority John Tune competes to pass the Chamber of Commerce budget bill by the weekend. A diverse cohort of holdouts threatening to delay the passage of the Senate bill with the Finance Hawks who argue that the current proposal is not aggressive enough to cut spending. Trump called for his groundbreaking bill by July 4th, which incorporates a vast strip of his legislative agenda, but it is currently unclear whether Congress will meet that deadline.
The House must mark the Senate bill with approval before Trump signs the action into law. Harris told the DCNF that the previous failure of the Senate proposals failed to comply with the House budget framework, which calls for additional tax cuts in dollar spending.
“It’s far away [House] Harris told DCNF.
One big beautiful bill in the Senate version currently proposed will weaken the priorities of major homes. It’s not enough to eliminate Medicaid waste, fraud and abuse. It goes back to the back of the green new fraud elimination included in the House bill, and significantly increases the deficit – …
– Rep. Andy Harris, MD (@RepandyHarrismd) June 24, 2025
Harris estimated that the current proposal for the upper room, which has not yet been finalized, could increase the deficit by $1 trillion over the decade. A Maryland Republican said the Senate GOP meeting would need to identify an additional $1 trillion in spending cuts to offset the current proposal’s impact on the deficit if they want to win a vote.
According to Harris, the easiest route is to make additional reforms to Medicaid. Senate Republicans have made more aggressive policy changes to the qualification program than the House Pass version, but Harris is urging them to go further into the room above. He raised the view to reduce the proportion of federal Medicaid spending, known as the Federal Health Assistance Rate (FMAP), for the Obamacare expansion population that GOP moderates have been balking up to now.
“They will have to make serious decisions about eliminating all Medicaid waste, fraud and abuse by addressing the inconsistencies of FMAP between young, healthy people and disabled people, seniors, pregnancy and children.
Especially the federal government payment 90% of the coverage costs for healthy adults eligible for Medicaid expansion donated a much lower percentage of traditional enrollees, including pregnant women and disabled people, and the qualification program was originally intended to serve.
The HFC chair also calls on the Senate to follow the Senate’s lead by pledging to immediately end the Green Energy Tax Credit enacted under former President Joe Biden.
“I hate the ‘green tax credit’ with great, big, beautiful bills,” President said. I wrote it Social platform truth social Saturday all capital letters. “They are mainly huge scams.”
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