House GOP leadership managed to barely eke out a win on their budget resolution Tuesday night, but the Senate is already eyeing changes that could pose challenges for the other chamber’s slim majority.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., with an assist from President Donald Trump, managed to quell concerns from both the center and right of his party to get the budget resolution adopted with only one Republican defection.
But Senate leadership is adamant the resolution’s tax instruction must allow the expiring 2017 tax cuts to be made permanent, and some rank-and-file members expect changes to soften the spending cut targets as well.
