Senator Bill Cassidy (R) - Louisiana
Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee met with President Trump this week to find common ground on his Big, Beautiful Bill.
Among them was Bill Cassidy, who says the two-hour meeting was very productive.
Like other senators, Cassidy says the bill as passed by the House will not pass in the Senate without some changes.
“There’s just some things that the House throws in there that by the Senate rules we can’t vote on,” says Sen. Cassidy. “That irritates the House, but that’s just the rules. And then there’s other things which I think we can make a little bit better, more likely if you will, to stimulate economic growth, more likely to give us the kind of economy in which people do better.”
Cassidy says Trump laid out his main objectives that he wants to achieve with his Big, Beautiful Bill.
“The President really wants to protect beneficiaries of Medicaid and Medicare,” Cassidy says. “And I think everybody does. He’s also about rooting out waste, fraud and abuse. And most of all, how do we get this economy growing so that there’s better jobs paying better wages for the American people?”
Not everyone is happy with the Big, Beautiful Bill – among them, Elon Musk.
Musk has taken to social media, calling the bill “an abomination” that’s full of pork spending.
That’s led to a war of words between Musk and Trump that’s spectacularly blown up in public.
While some say the relationship between Trump and Musk is damaged beyond repair, Cassidy says it’s more like a lover’s tiff.
“If anyone has ever seen a married couple fight in public, you know that sometimes even people who normally get along don’t. And sometimes they bring it out into the public. And you say things that later on you wish you hadn’t,” says Cassidy. “I think what we’re seeing here is just two guys who just got really angry at each other and just kind of escalated. I think it’ll come back down, and I think they’ll work together.”
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