Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., distanced himself from senators opposed to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s impact on the national debt, telling Newsmax on Monday he was working to reduce its impact on deficit spending as much as possible.

“I’m going to let each one of them make their own decisions,” Lankford told “The Record With Greta Van Susteren” of the senators.

“What we’re trying to do is to be able to get as much deficit reduction as we can possibly get. All of us are concerned about that. But every time you reduce a program, somebody says, ‘Hey, that’s a big program in my state,’ whatever it may be.

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