The GOP legislators are under pressure at home and warn Johnson of “Hatchet ‘output cuts”

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On the eve of her first big voice to drive the agenda of President Donald Trump, the Republicans of the house warn the spokesman Mike Johnson that they will not just rub strict stamps throughout the federal government.

Johnson plans to hold a vote on a comprehensive budget on Tuesday, in which cuts of 2 trillion US dollars are required over a decade to pay tax cuts and new national security expenses. However, the fate of this measure is uncertain in the middle of the rising pressure at home, since the Republicans across the country are exposed to the flash of expenditure of freezing points and Federal Worker Brands directed by billionaire Elon Musk.

“You have to do this with a scalpel and not with a hatchet. And we have to make sure that people who work hard, but are protected on medicaid for health insurance or seniors in a nursing home or with disabilities, ”Rep. Jeff van Drew, Republican in New Jersey, told CNN.

Van Drew, who had set up demonstrators in front of his office in South Jersey, said that he spoke to Johnson to get an “assurance” before he agreed to drive Trump’s agenda ahead.

He is not alone. Several other Republicans, such as representatives Nicole Malliotakis from New York and Don Bacon from Nebraska, do not yet have to spend Johnson’s budget for several people who are familiar with discussions. At least one Republican, Rep. Victoria Spatzt from Indiana, announced on Monday that she was a no for the “current version” of the budget plan and was looking for deeper cuts.

GOP leadership sources believe that you will ultimately convince your conference to support the measure, as no Republicans want to go to the record that blocks Trump’s agenda, but it can take some time to get there.

Johnson admitted on Monday that the schedule could slip, said he believed that the house would agree to a budget by the end of the week.

“We believe that we will have the voices. Tonight I have a handful of people with whom I can talk about various topics, but we are going and we are very optimistic, we will do this thing, ”Johnson told reporters. “There are a few people who have only persistent questions. But I think all of these questions can be answered. ”

For his part, Bacon said that he wanted to advance Trump’s agenda in terms of national security, energy generation and tax cuts. “But we don’t want to make Medicaid considerable cuts, and the current proposal seems to do that,” he told CNN.

Many central Republicans, including Bacon, had spent the first few weeks of Trump’s presidency in order to carefully avoid direct criticism of the new administration. But one month after Trump’s second term in office, a growing number of ranking of legislators publicly warn some of the recent steps of the president to shake the status quo in Washington, such as reducing Musk and now their support for a budget, the hundreds of billions of dollars from the largest health program with low income from the country from the country.

Last week, several GOP legislators in the town halls and in local interviews on the effects of Trump’s quick attempt to reduce the federal government stood in the town halls and local interviews.

In New Jersey, van Drew expressed concerns regarding the shots in a local aviation center for aviation. In Alaska, Rep. Nick Begich was grilled by local officials for freezing federal financing, which could increase the likelihood of power failures. In Ohio, Rep. Troy Balderson was during a local business lunch that he believed that some of Trump’s one -sided movements went too far.

“The congress must decide whether the Ministry of Education disappears or not,” said Balderson, according to Columbus Dispatch. “Not the president, not Elon Musk. The congress decides. ”

Several states that rep. Rich McCormick – a military veteran and fiscal falcon from Georgia – were in a town hall with Böpfen when he was pressed through cuts into the health center of the local government, the centers for the control and prevention of diseases.

“I don’t think that the Executive Privileg should be as strong as it is. I think we’re out of balance. I think your direct representation of whether you like me or not, I am the next thing you have to represent, ”said McCormick, when he was opposed to himself in the crowd.

The increasing dissatisfaction of some Republicans of the house will not make it easier for Johnson and his management team if they try to complete the votes for the separate budget vote on Tuesday. For example, some New York Republicans are still angry with Musk’s team because they went after a survivor of 9/11 after the cuts were reversed after a survivor of 9/11.

The conservative Republicans informed CNN that they believe that their more centrist colleagues would ultimately be in line and support the budget. Nevertheless, the continued fear from the middle is a warning sign for GOP leaders if you design and later try to survive the massive measure with zero space for errors – without risking your majority in 2026.

“This is a tricky business. This is something that you cannot do easily and you can’t just turn through your way, ”van Drew said about the goal of the GOP, trimming the expenses that he generally supports. “But a lot has to be done.”

Some Republicans already believed privately that the cuts in the latest version of the House GOP budget blossom were too steep for a single bill, such as several members and high -ranking helpers who spoke about the condition of anonymity. They feared that there would be no way to reach this scale of cuts without touching advantages for programs such as Medicaid – even if Trump himself said he would protect the program.

The Republicans of the house were not always obliged to make a 2 -brillion of 2 trillion dollars. Johnson’s management team made a compromise with strong conservatives that expressed their opposition after the Republican in Louisiana initially informed the members of his conference that he supported a figure closer to $ 1 trillion.

Now the Republicans of the Republicans are closing the new plan without certainty that he will say goodbye to their closely shared chamber. Johnson can afford to lose only a handful of voices in the budget.

The Republicans of the Senate, who make the matters more difficult, present a simpler and less controversial way to start Trump’s agenda. This chamber adopted a close budget plan on Friday morning, which increases a new money for border and military programs, without the politically painful cuts for swinging seats.

However, this plan has its own opponents in the house, who are worried that the thorny question of expanding Trump’s tax cuts would temporarily risk to reject them as a whole.

And it’s not just Republicans of the battlefield that Johnson assure themselves of the impending cuts.

A group of Hispanic Republicans, led by Rep. Tony Gonzales from Texas, sent an open letter to Johnson last week and warned the party, not reducing the advantages for Medicaid and Food Support, which they said that they would affect their own voters directly .

The cutting of Medicaid, they wrote, would have “serious consequences”, especially in Hispanic communities, which they described as the “future of the Republican Party”.

This story has been updated with additional developments.

Haley Talbot and Morgan Rimmer from CNN contributed to this report.