When asked on Sunday if Senate Republicans could match the House’s proposed $1.5 trillion in cuts for the upcoming budget reconciliation package, Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., suggested the upper chamber is aiming higher with $2 trillion in cuts.
Some Republican members of Congress would say this is an opportunity to “‘cut into that $37 trillion in debt,'” Fox News host Maria Bartiromo said. “Do you believe that you will be able to match what the House has identified — $1.5 trillion in spending cuts? Because so far the Senate has come up with, what with, $3 to 4 billion in spending cuts? Tell us now definitively, do you believe you’ll be able to match the House’s spending cuts?”
“Well, I do,” Barrasso replied. “And, actually, our number’s a little higher than that of what we’d like to get to. The American people know the government is too big; it spends too much. They saw this list of things that have come out, the spending under the bloated budgets of the Biden administration for the last four years that have given us the highest inflation in 40 years.”
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