Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) said Sunday that he is “very confident” that President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” will pass the Senate.
“How confident are you that the bill will pass, senator?” NBC News’s Kristen Welker asked on “Meet the Press.”
“We’re very confident,” Mullin replied. “Listen, Kristen, the hardest part was getting on the bill.
“What we mean by getting on the bill is once we pass the House version, which is what we passed last night, then we put our amendments on it, and we go into debate,” he added.
On Saturday, Senate Republicans narrowly voted to advance a 1,000-page bill to enact Trump’s agenda, despite opposition from two of their members.
Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) both voted against advancing the package. Paul has opposed a provision to increase the debt limit by $5 trillion, while Tillis has said the bill would cost North Carolina $38.9 billion in federal Medicaid funding.
“I cannot support this bill in its current form. It would result in tens of billions of dollars in lost funding for North Carolina, including our hospitals and rural communities,” Tillis said in a prior statement.
“This will force the state to make painful decisions like eliminating Medicaid coverage for hundreds of thousands in the expansion population, and even reducing critical services for those in the traditional Medicaid population,” he added.
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