Now that President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” budget bill has made it out of the House, it heads to the Senate, where some lawmakers have already said they have serious problems with the legislation as it’s currently written.
Tim Murtaugh, a Trump 2024 senior adviser, told Newsmax that some grumbling from senators is “to be expected,” but, ultimately, he thinks they will “come around.”
“I think you’ll see senators trying to stake out their public relations ground as the bill comes to their chamber, but what this big, beautiful bill is about is keeping promises for President Trump,” Murtaugh said Friday on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “As folks may recall, even those in the United States Senate, President Trump won the 2024 election fairly handily and so I think he’s probably entitled to tell these guys, ‘Look, I got to keep these promises.'”
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