President Donald Trump is expecting GOP lawmakers, who have small majorities in both houses of Congress, to pass a "big, beautiful bill" — which will combine his policy priorities — and get it onto his desk for signature.

But Republicans in Congress don't necessarily see eye to when it comes to specifics. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) is fighting with members of his caucus, and Senate Republicans have their own ideas on the form a megabill should take.

In an article published by Politico on April 14, reporters Jordain Carney and Meredith Lee Hill describe the struggles of putting a GOP megabill passed.

"They know it's going to be big," Carney and Hill explain. "They want it to be beautiful. Now, congressional Republicans need to decide what's going to be in it — and they're confronting the very real possibility they might not be able to figure it out. A Thursday, (April 10) House vote might have finalized a fiscal framework for the GOP's domestic policy megabill, but completing that intermediate step exposed huge fissures between the House and Senate over a range of issues crucial to finishing the sprawling legislation that's expected to span tax cuts, border security, energy and more."

Sen. John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) described the challenges of putting together a GOP megabill and getting it passed.

Kennedy told Politico, "I know the dialectic is supposed to produce a final result, but sometimes it doesn't — many times up here, it doesn't. We can spend an entire year getting nothing done."

Senate Budget Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) is urging fellow Republicans to get something passed sooner rather than later — even if it doesn't include everything Trump wants it to.

"If this thing drags out too long," Graham told Politico, "I’m gonna say break it apart."

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Read Politico's full article at this link.

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