Since the House passed President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” over a week ago, there’s been a drip-drip of fallout from different factions of the Republican conference who are coming to terms with a bill they don’t really like, but voted for anyway.
Elon Musk’s relentless criticism of the bill and a new Congressional Budget Office report showing it would balloon the deficit fueled conservative hopes that the Senate version will produce substantive changes to help quell their buyers’ remorse.
“I love the air cover,” conservative Rep. Eric Burlison — who voted for the bill — told NOTUS. “Thank God we have somebody like [Musk] that’s coming in with a wrecking ball and trying to help us here.”