Texas Republican Rep. Keith Self would vote against his party’s budget reconciliation bill as it currently stands.
“I am a ‘no’ at the moment,” he told The Daily Signal.
Months in the making, the bill would extend President Donald Trump’s first-term 2017 tax cuts and fulfill campaign promises, such as fully funding border security.
But why do Self and other fiscal hawks say they would vote down the bill as it stands today? For him, the bill falls short of earlier promises of restoring fiscal balance.
“The big picture was the framework that we had, which basically was $4.5 trillion in tax cuts. Assuming $2.5 trillion in growth from the tax cuts, which means we needed to find $2 trillion in spending cuts,” he said of his original hopes for the bill.
