WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) - President Donald Trump is pushing Congress to pass his "One Big Beautiful Bill" by the Fourth of July, but it has an uphill battle with a handful of lawmakers in the party.

The budget bill extends tax cuts while cutting funding for Medicaid by adding work requirements. It also raises the debt ceiling, a dealbreaker for Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul.

"I can't, in good conscience, give up every principle that I stand for, and every principle that I was elected upon, and that's that we can't accumulate more debt," Sen. Paul said.

The president posted about Paul on Truth Social, writing: "He loves voting "NO" on everything, he thinks it's good politics, but it's not."

"I would say that's not actually true. I would say I've been pretty consistent in my time in th

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