Senate picks fight with House GOP on the "big, beautiful bill"

Search Senate Majority Leader John Thune at the Capitol on Monday. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Senate Finance Chair Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) has picked a big intra-GOP fight on — all but ignoring some of the House's most delicate budget compromises. 🥊 Why it matters: Neither the House nor the Senate wants to go to a , but the Senate text released Monday afternoon showed just how extensive, and contentious, the conference-like negotiations will be. Zoom in: Members of the House SALT caucus were outraged that the limit was reduced from $40,000 to $10,000 in the Senate text. 💰 To help pay for his priorities, Crapo cut deeper on Medicaid and reopened the debate on the provider tax. On energy tax credits, Crapo wants to allow more projects to claim them before the credits sunset. 🏈 Even the House's Trump-supported provision to strip sports team owners of a lucrative tax break was ignored. The first test will be getting 51 senators on board, and just a few hours after the text came out, it was already on shaky ground in the Senate. Other Republicans were eerily quiet or said they needed time for review. Between the lines: For Democrats, the deeper cuts to Medicaid and scaled-back child tax credit are ready-made to blast the GOP. Want more stories like this? Sign up for Majority Leader John Thune, along with Sens. John Barrasso and Mike Crapo, speak to members of the media following a meeting outside the White House. Photo: Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images Senate Republicans published their text of President Trump's "one big, beautiful bill" Monday evening, which includes major tax reforms and even steeper Medicaid cuts than the House called for. Why it matters: This is the trickiest part of the GOP's , which also includes raising the debt ceiling as well as border and military funding. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaks to the media after the House narrowly passed a bill on May 22. Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images House Speaker (R-La.) took to the Sunday political talk shows to champion 's recently passed "." The big picture: Republican infighting threatened to tank the GOP-only legislation in the House before it narrowly passed Thursday, and some senators have made it clear they don't back the bill in its current form. This is John Thune. Photo via Getty Images Key Senate Republicans strategized with President Trump on how to cut spending deeper than the and pressed him to make his proposed business tax cuts permanent. Why it matters: "Failure is not an option," Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters after the hour-and-a-half meeting on Wednesday. Axios Media Inc., 2025