Several members of the House Freedom Caucus have already lined up their opposition to the House Republican leadership-endorsed Senate budget resolution.
The Senate budget resolution would only need a few Republican detractors to tank it altogether.
A few Freedom Caucus members cited House Budget Committee Chair Rep. Jodey Arrington’s assessment of the budget resolution to suggest they will not be voting for it. Arrington, who is not a member of the Freedom Caucus, said the Senate version of the budget resolution was “unserious and disappointing.”
“@RepArrington characterized the Senate budget perfectly—unserious and disappointing,” Rep. Keith Self (R-TX) said in a post on X. “House Republicans passed a strong budget with $1.5 trillion in cuts. The Senate budget offers only a measly $4 billion in cuts…nowhere near what we need to curb the deficit and enact President Trump’s full agenda.”
Rep. Josh Brocheen (R-OK) also suggested he would vote against the resolution. “So many of us are GREATLY disappointed in the Senate budget resolution (that initiates the reconciliation process) effectively gutting what we sent over from the House!!! Our momentum just got delayed when many of us will have to vote ‘NO’ on this when it comes back to the House, knowing the promise to cut tomorrow is never fulfilled by Congress,” he said in a post on X.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said he will vote ‘no’ if the “Senate’s ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ budget is put on the House floor in a long social media post. Like other Freedom Caucus members, he said that the Senate’s budget resolution doesn’t lay out enough spending cuts and called the House’s $200 billion in planned cuts “perhaps overly modest.”
“The America First agenda requires boldness from Congress, not timidity. President Trump’s leadership – and risk taking – requires the same from Republicans in Congress, not more of the same selfish vote-buying, big-spending pork that got us into this debt crisis,” he said.
The schism between the Freedom Caucus and House Republican leadership was expected. House GOP leadership published a Dear Colleague letter urging support for the Senate budget resolution.
“Adopting the Senate’s amendment to the House’s resolution will allow us to finally begin the most important phase of the process: drafting the reconciliation bill that will deliver on President Trump’s agenda and our promises to the American people,” the Saturday letter read.
The resolution is expected to go into the Rules Committee on Monday with a plan to bring it to the House floor on Wednesday. It could exclude Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s (R-FL) proxy voting initiative, which was largely opposed by leadership until President Donald Trump endorsed it.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson along with other House Republican leaders say the resolution is not law itself, but allows for reconciliation to begin. Leadership believes that while the Senate took a different path with the resolution, House Republicans can still enact “historic spending reductions” while safeguarding essential services.
Then they can work towards passing the “One Big Beautiful Bill” that Trump has pushed if they can produce a product both chambers can pass.