{"id":2419078,"date":"2025-04-02T16:30:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T20:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-reassures-deficit-skittish-republicans-at-white-house-meeting\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T16:32:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T20:32:55","slug":"trump-reassures-deficit-skittish-republicans-at-white-house-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-reassures-deficit-skittish-republicans-at-white-house-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump reassures deficit-skittish Republicans at White House meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-reassures-deficit-skittish-republicans-at-white-house-meeting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2419078&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>During a recent meeting at the White House,President Donald Trump addressed Senate budget hawks,reassuring them of his commitment to deficit reduction adn gaining their support for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-leaders-struggle-to-agree-on-splitting-power-over-dueling-stances-on-keeping-filibuster-in-practice\/\" title=\"... leaders struggle to agree on splitting power over dueling stances on keeping filibuster in practice\">legislative agenda<\/a>. Senate Majority Leader John Thune lead members of the Senate Budget Committee to discuss a budget resolution that would facilitate Trump&#8217;s priorities in tax, border security, and energy. Senators expressed cautious optimism about the potential for a vote on the resolution later in the week, despite some concerns about maintaining a $2 trillion cap on offsets. Budget committee member Sen. John Kennedy conveyed the importance of Trump&#8217;s commitment to fiscal responsibility, while others, like Sen. Ron Johnson, highlighted the need for tangible guarantees of future savings. The meeting aimed to revitalize a stalled process and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">align republicans ahead<\/a> of a critical vote, as the Senate seeks to finalize the budget before the Easter recess.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump reassures deficit-skittish Republicans at White House meeting<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2081191\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Senate budget hawks left a meeting at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">White House<\/a> more open to voting for a blueprint that unlocks President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump&rsquo;s<\/a> agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/john-thune\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">John Thune<\/a> (R-SD) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/netanyahu-skewers-agitators-who-proclaim-gays-for-gaza-with-brilliant-one-liner\/\" title=\"Netanyahu Skewers Agitators Who Proclaim &#039;Gays for Gaza&#039; with Brilliant One-Liner\">brought members<\/a> of the Senate Budget Committee to the White House on Wednesday, giving Trump a chance to assure fiscal conservatives, many of whom sit on the panel, that he is serious about deficit reduction.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3367726\/senate-gop-releases-trump-agenda-blueprint-spending-fight\/\">Senate GOP releases Trump agenda blueprint with spending fight unresolved<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3368070\/amy-klobuchar-ted-cruz-clash-hearing-judicial-injunctions\/\">Klobuchar and Cruz clash at hearing over judicial injunctions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3368007\/adam-schiff-ruben-gallego-hold-up-trump-nominees\/\">Democratic freshmen senators hold up some Trump nominees<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The Senate will vote on the budget resolution, which clears the way for Trump&rsquo;s tax, border, and energy priorities, later this week, but several Republican holdouts wanted commitments that the Senate would not stray too far from the $2 trillion in offsets guaranteed in companion House instructions.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), a Budget Committee member, told reporters that chief of staff Susie Wiles offered to prepare a statement underlining that commitment.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I heard the president say, &lsquo;I recognize this is a rare and wonderful opportunity to right-size the budget, and I support your efforts to achieve that end, and I&rsquo;ll say it publicly and repeatedly,&rsquo;&rdquo; Kennedy said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I always believed he would do that, but I think it was important to a couple of my colleagues to hear him say that,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Thune declined to predict &ldquo;for sure&rdquo; whether the resolution now has the GOP support needed to clear the upper chamber, with a vote expected on Friday or Saturday, but he called the meeting a &ldquo;good opportunity to get a lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chairman-of-the-house-homeland-security-committee-to-visit-site-of-trump-shooting-on-monday\/\" title=\"Chairman of the ... Homeland Security Committee to visit site of Trump shooting on Monday\">members&#038;rsquo<\/a>; questions answered.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Fiscal hawks, meanwhile, expressed optimism that Republicans were on the same page regarding federal spending.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) told reporters he believes Trump is serious about returning the budget to $6.5 trillion a year, one of his demands. He has asked leadership for an &ldquo;ironclad&rdquo; guarantee that Republicans would convene a bicameral panel to find savings.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think he&rsquo;s embraced that concept and, I think even more importantly, a process to achieving it,&rdquo; Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he was more inclined to support the budget resolution, Johnson told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m certainly far more predisposed to it than I was.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Other undecided Republicans signaled that the meeting had softened their resistance to the measure.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re making progress, and I think we&rsquo;re optimistic,&rdquo; Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I believe we&rsquo;re going to have something that everybody can vote for,&rdquo; Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) added.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting represented a last-minute push to breathe new life into a process that has stalled for weeks. Soon after senators returned to the Capitol, the Senate Budget Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3367726\/senate-gop-releases-trump-agenda-blueprint-spending-fight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">released its blueprint<\/a>, with the ultimate goal of both chambers approving it before the Easter recess next week.<\/p>\n<p>From there, committees in each body will spend weeks hammering out the finer details of Trump&rsquo;s legislative agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy called the budget resolution a &ldquo;baby step&rdquo; toward a more contentious fight over federal spending. House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-unveils-his-6t-budget\/\" title=\"Biden Unveils His ...T ...\">fiscal hawks<\/a> have expressed skepticism that the Senate will live up to the $2 trillion in offsets agreed to by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3323999\/what-is-vote-a-rama-washington-marathon-loathed-senators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>WHAT IS A &lsquo;VOTE-A-RAMA,&rsquo; THE WASHINGTON MARATHON LOATHED BY SENATORS?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kennedy predicted that Trump would continue to be instrumental in tamping down disputes, as he was when a version of the blueprint was adopted in the House in February.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;At some point, President Trump is going to have to step in and say, &lsquo;Let me help you folks and share with you my ideas,&rsquo; in order for us to reach a consensus in both the House and the Senate,&rdquo; Kennedy said. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s just the nature of the beast.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2081191\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2081191\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump reassures deficit-wary Republicans at White House meeting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2651,"featured_media":2419079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AP25029622236699-1024x591.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[9647,4470,3756,3634,32127],"class_list":["post-2419078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-deficit","tag-meeting","tag-republicans","tag-trump","tag-white-house"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AP25029622236699-1024x591.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2651"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2419078"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2419083,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419078\/revisions\/2419083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2419079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2419078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2419078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2419078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}