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Big Beautiful Bill Undergoing Changes
The Northwoods’ congressman says the big beautiful bill will change, but it will still make a difference.
Republican Congressman Tom Tiffany told News talk 1130 WIISN’s Jay Weber that there will be changes to the reconciliation package now in the US Senate. But Tiffany said the core ‘must-haves’ of the legislation will remain.
“Securing the border, gotta get it done. Modernizing our defense, gotta get it done. Extending the Tax Cut and Jobs Act those three things, everyone agrees we have to get those three things done,” Tiffany said.
He said the hang up is the "amount of reduction of spending.”
Tiffany said Wisconsin Republican US Senator Ron Johnson has been doing “yeoman’s work” to try and hammer that point.
Johnson has been saying for weeks that the reconciliation package doesn’t do enough to cut the deficit.
Tiffany isn’t sure how much more the Senate can cut, or how much more the House will agree to. But he’s confident the Republican Congress will give the president what he’s looking for.
“I’m optimistic,” Tiffany said. “I’m hopeful that we're going to have a good bill, that’s going to be a good first step toward some fiscal accountability.”
Tiffany said Congress will have another shot at spending cuts and deficit reduction when the new budget cycle starts in the fall.
“Our next budget starts October 1st, the fiscal year. We get another opportunity,” Tiffany explained. “We need to take every one of these opportunities to reduce the wasteful spending that’s going on out here in Washington, D.C., and hopefully we can get to a better place with our fiscal condition.”
The House on Wednesday took the first vote on a number of ‘fixes’ to keep the reconciliation package filibuster-proof.
The hope is to see the Senate vote on the plan before the Fourth of July.
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