Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) stated on Monday passing President Trump’s “massive, stunning invoice” within the Home will probably “be a problem.”
“I do suppose you are gonna have some challenges on the Home aspect. We are able to solely lose three votes,” Steube informed NewsNation’s Blake Burman on “The Hill.”
“You’ve got received 218 you bought to get to, we are able to solely lose three, if we lose 4 the invoice’s lifeless, and you have issues in right here that moderates don’t love, and you have issues in right here that conservatives don’t love. So, it’s actually going to be a problem.”
Home reasonable Republicans and hard-line conservatives have recently expressed rising opposition to the Senate’s model of the “massive, stunning invoice” solely days earlier than the decrease chamber is ready to contemplate the laws.
Democrats have already expressed their very own vehement distaste for the invoice, with members like Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) calling it a “massive unhealthy betrayal invoice” and Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) saying it is an “evil invoice.”
“If Republicans move this massive unhealthy betrayal invoice, they’re fairly actually guaranteeing that extra poor Individuals will DIE in order that billionaires and large companies can get a tax lower,” Jayapal stated in a submit on the social platform X Monday.
Former shut Trump ally Elon Musk stated Monday he would assist major challengers to any Republicans who backed Trump’s “massive, stunning invoice.”
“Each member of Congress who campaigned on decreasing authorities spending after which instantly voted for the most important debt improve in historical past ought to grasp their head in disgrace!” Musk stated on X.