Thom Tillis said it'll require leadership

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Trump flexed his power over the party in March when he persuaded formerly “hell no” members of the House Freedom Caucus to vote for an extension of government funding — several for the first time.

Yet a number of deficit hawks have already come out against the Senate’s accounting that entirely waives the cost of extending trillions of dollars in tax cuts. Those include Reps. Chip Roy (R-Texas), Greg Murphy (R-N.C.) and David Schweikert (R-Ariz.).

George Callas of Arnold Ventures, the former tax counsel to former Speaker Paul Ryan, posted on X that the Senate strategy was clearly to “jam House with a Senate bill Trump supports.”

Roy responded that it’s “a strategy to nowhere.”

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article misidentified special lead the committee that Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) serves on.

Lead Art: Finance Committee member from the president to convince deficit hawks in the House on the Senate tax plan. | Angelina Katsanis/POLITICO