Conservative spending hawks in the House are worried about changes to the bill full of President Trump's priorities that Republicans in the Senate are eyeing — and they may soon face a moment of reckoning.

Under heavy pressure from Trump and his MAGA base, GOP spending hawks held their noses and voted last month to move the bill through the House, hoping the Senate would shift the massive package closer to being deficit-neutral.

Instead, the opposite is now expected to happen, as moderate GOP senators leery of the House Medicaid cuts and efforts to phase out green energy subsidies seek to restore some of those benefit programs, potentially making the bill even more costly than the House version. With just a slim Senate majority, GOP Leader John Thune (S.D.) will need the support of those

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