Republican Rich McCormick from Georgia

Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Ga.), who was among the House Republicans seeking assurances of spending cuts in a final package, told reporters before the vote that Trump and Thune “have been very open that they’re going to make sure that we get at least $1.5 trillion in cuts.”

“We’re getting serious about the budget and the deficit for the first time in the last couple decades,” McCormick added. “That’s a good step in the right direction.”

Johnson and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise met privately with fiscal hawks past 10 p.m. Wednesday, after the GOP leaders canceled a vote on the fiscal framework earlier in the evening. Before that, House hard-liners met privately with Thune about ensuring deeper spending cuts.

“I think at some point these guys just have to take yes for an answer,” said Thune.

And in the end, the holdouts came on board.

Yet adopting an identical budget in the House and Senate is just the first step in the arduous process of steering Trump’s “big beautiful bill” to enactment. It was far from easy. Republicans in each chamber had to vote twice on the fiscal blueprint over the course of seven weeks, in order to arrive at a final product GOP lawmakers on both sides of the Capitol could accept.

The budget framework gives Republicans a great deal of wiggle room to decide what goes into the final package. They are allowed, but not required, to boost military spending by $150 billion, along with another $175 billion for border security and immigration enforcement work.

And while there are ways Republicans can skirt some of their own mandates to reduce the deficit in the final bill, they are calling for a total of at least $4 billion in savings over a decade from new policy crafted by committees that handle agriculture, nutrition and housing, along with energy, health, education and labor policy.

Because Senate Republicans plan to use a seldom-used approach to tallying the price tag of their tax policies, GOP leaders plan to extend the 2017 Trump tax cuts while also enacting up to $1.5 trillion in new tax breaks — all while claiming they are only increasing the federal deficit by that $1.5 trillion. For their new tax perks, Republican leaders are considering Trump’s own ideas, including nixing taxes on tips, as well as restoring key tax breaks for businesses and expanding the Child Tax Credit.

Democrats are eager to hone their attacks on the GOP as the bill comes together.

“If they need to rack up a trillion-dollar bill on the middle-class credit card in order to finance tax cuts for their wealthy friends, they are willing to do it every single time,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said in an interview. “They’re willing to break the Senate, if that’s what’s necessary, to give away tax breaks to corporations and wealthy people.”

Republicans will also now have to grapple with how to fulfill conservative demands for $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion in cuts to safety-net programs — with a major focus on Medicaid. Moderates are wary of changes that could lead to benefit cuts, while conservative hardliners want to make deep cuts to the program.

There could even be division over eliminating green energy tax credits from the much-vilified 2022 climate law passed under the Biden administration. There are some within the party in both chambers who are agitating to preserve an array of these credits benefitting red districts and states.

While Republicans are broadly in favor of extending the 2017 Trump tax cuts, many other tax questions could divide lawmakers, including caps on state and local tax deductions and expanding the Child Tax Credit.

What are Georgia Congressman RICH McCORMICK and Republicans intent on doing?

Crazy, greedy racist Republicans want to INCREASE THE DEFICIT BY GIVING THEMSELVES A MULTI-TRILLION DOLLAR TAX CUT, INCREASE DEFENSE SPENDING, INCREASE SPACE FORCE FUNDING, INCREASE HOMELAND SECURITY FUNDING, INCREASE PRIVATE PRISON CONSTRUCTION, INCREASE OIL/GAS SUBSIDIES WHILE CUTTING $900 BILLION FROM MEDICAID.

GOP theocratic Muslim-hating babykilling sociopaths hate non-whites so much they intend to cut $900 billion from Medicaid to achieve their longstanding and ongoing priority of "owning the libs."

GOPers identify and associate Americans who rely upon Medicaid as lazy, no-good non-whites pickpocketing Republican white male wallets.

Are they really that racist? Yes they are.

In fact, your brain cells and ears are so acclimated to Democratic Party officials and pundits mischaractering Republicans as "there's good on both sides of the aisle" and "we need to reach across the aisle" and "we need a strong Republican Party" that if you were told what these Republican officials really think you wouldn't believe it.