Big, Beautiful Hurdles in the Senate

The House's “big, beautiful bill” is already running into resistance in the Senate. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) said the spectrum auction plan—championed by President Donald Trump—“has got to come out.” Sen. Rounds said that while the House has had the opportunity to make changes, “once the Senate weighs in on it, I think we’ll have a different opinion about what the bill looks like.” Sen Rounds has his own red line for the House bill — removing the House GOP’s policy to allow spectrum auction to help raise funds for the bill. “We can negotiate about a lot of other things, except for spectrum, which has got to come out,” he said, adding that there are “a number of us that can’t” support the bill without that change. “We’re a long ways from the finish line,” Sen Rounds said of the coming weeks and months.