Key Senate Republicans strategized with President Trump on how to cut spending deeper than the House-passed budget bill and pressed him to make his proposed business tax cuts permanent.

Why it matters: "Failure is not an option," Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters after the hour-and-a-half meeting on Wednesday. • "We are going to cut some more money from what the House has done," Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas.) told Axios. • "Can we get to $2 trillion? Do we make all those business tax provisions permanent or not?" he said. "I think those are the big issues." • "We had a very, very robust and hopeful discussion with the president today," Finance Chair Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) told reporters.

Inside the room: The members of the Senate Finance Committee were joined

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