House conservatives are balking at the Senate’s version of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax-and-spending bill, just days ahead of the July 4 deadline Trump set.
According to Politico, members of the House Freedom Caucus are circulating a memo slamming more than a dozen Senate revisions, claiming they inflate the deficit and violate the original House framework.
The Senate bill:
— House Freedom Caucus (@freedomcaucus) July 2, 2025
❌Continues taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for adults and minors
❌Doesn't fully get illegal aliens off Medicaid and allows illegal alien parents to open the new Trump Accounts
❌Guts the repeal of the Green New Scam
❌Adds hundreds of billions of dollars… pic.twitter.com/6bcRHFFyU7
The memo criticizes changes that allegedly boost the deficit by $761 billion without interest, and over $1.3 trillion with interest. It accuses Senate GOP leaders of breaking promises and slams provisions like continued Medicaid access for undocumented immigrants and funding for gender-affirming care.
Caucus Chair Andy Harris urged Trump to recall senators to renegotiate. Trump, for his part, was scheduled to meet with holdouts on Wednesday. “He’s been working the phones pretty consistently,” a White House official said. “He’s going to get it over the finish line.”
