John Thune Asked Point Blank About Republican Senators Who Don't Currently Support The Budget Bill

At a Senate Republican press briefing on Tuesday, Sen. John Thune (R-SD) spoke about what needs to change for budget bill to pass.

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00:00I think a lot of the the issue in the Senate will be as I mentioned earlier

00:19does it have sufficient spending reforms to get us on a more sustainable fiscal

00:24path I think most of our members are in favor of a lot of the tax policy and

00:29particularly those portions of the tax policy that are stimulative that are

00:32pro-growth that will create greater growth in the economy but when it comes

00:37to the spending side of the equation this is a unique moment in time and in

00:40history where we have the House and the Senate and the White House and an

00:44opportunity to do something meaningful about out-of-control government spending

00:49so I think a lot of it's around that there are there are dials and tweaks on

00:53some of the tax issues that our members will want to talk about I think one of

00:56the principal differences at least right now and some of the house versions

01:00that I've seen and I can't speak because they haven't passed it yet is they have

01:04cliffs and some short shorter time term I would say time frames when it comes to

01:11some of the tax policies we believe that permanence is the way to create economic

01:16certainty and thereby attract and incentivize capital investment in this

01:20country that creates those good-paying jobs and and gets our economy growing and

01:25expanding and generates more government revenue so there are different you know

01:29views about what the length of some of these tax policies ought to be and we'll

01:32have an opportunity to be heard on that when it comes to the Senate thank you