Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again.

So today, we're going to talk about the Senate, Trump's bill, and rewrites.

The one big beautiful bill has made it to the Senate, and senators are signaling they will be making substantial changes to the legislation

that just made it through the House and that the House

leadership told the Senate not to change. Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin mocked the plan that

came out of the House, indicating he believed it was out of touch with reality. He said, quote,

I'm hoping now we'll actually start looking at reality. I know everybody

wants to go to Disney World, but we just can't afford it. Much like in the House, the Senate has

factions of Republicans who want different things. Ron Johnson is part of a faction that is concerned about spending and the

debt and wants to see deeper cuts. He's widely viewed as somebody who will vote against the package

because there's no way it'll get close to what he can accept. There's also a faction that wants to

see smaller cuts to Medicaid, a faction that wants to preserve

a lot of Biden's green energy initiatives, although they'll never say it that way. They'll

probably frame it around creating jobs. And then you have a faction that doesn't want snap destroyed.

There are senators concerned about the salt deduction, but it doesn't seem like a deal breaker

in the Senate like it was in the House. Given Trump's recent habit of going along with

whatever the last person who talked to him said, it's possible he signs off on a Senate version that

loses House support, which is why many in the House wanted the President and the Senate to

sign off on the package before they voted on it. Another almost guaranteed no is Senator Rand Paul,

who is primarily concerned with the debt

and deficit issues caused by the bill that will raise the debt by trillions, saying,

quote, once Republicans vote for this, Republicans are going to own the deficit.

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