Senators will stay in D.C. until Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' passes, Thune says

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Monday that lawmakers successful his enclosure volition stay successful Washington, D.C., until they walk President Donald Trump's "big, beauteous bill."

"Senators instrumentality to Washington contiguous and we volition stay present until this measure is passed," helium wrote successful an op-ed connected Fox News.

The comments are a motion of the expanding unit Thune faces to triumph implicit Republican holdouts who inactive reason the megabill, up of a self-imposed July 4 deadline.

Thune wrote that helium is "confident" that the Senate volition get the measure "across the decorativeness line."

Congress was acceptable to beryllium connected recess the week of July 4, meaning this week was efficaciously the deadline for lawmakers to walk the bundle and get it to Trump's desk.

But arsenic the deadline nears, Thune is inactive drafting pushback from his conference, including a radical of fiscal hawks who are acrophobic the bundle volition detonate the nationalist debt.

For instance, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., has repeatedly criticized the bill, informing it would adhd trillions of dollars to nationalist deficits.

"What we should beryllium doing is bending the curve of deficits down, successful this reconciliation process, we're not adjacent coming close," Johnson said connected CNBC's "Squawk Box" earlier this month.

Despite the blowback from immoderate GOP lawmakers, Thune has repeatedly signaled that helium intends to instrumentality to the deadline.

Thune said past week that helium was hopeful that his enclosure would instrumentality up the measure by the mediate of this week, POLITICO reported.

The White House has besides repeatedly stood by the July 4 deadline.

"It's imperative the Senate returns this historical portion of authorities connected July 4th!" White House property caput Karoline Leavitt wrote past week connected X.