Fla. Sen. Rick Scott calls for more budget cuts to restore fiscal sanity into Trumps big, beautiful bill

A top Senate Republican said Sunday that more spending cuts are needed to infuse “fiscal sanity” into President Trump’s proposed “big, beautiful” budget bill.Florida Sen.Rick Scott, who serves on the Senate’s Budget Committee, told WABC 770 AM radio’s “Cats Roundtable” that his fellow GOPers in the House did not do nearly enough to control spending or help rein in America’s explosive debt when they passed the bill last month.He said he and other Senate Republicans will work with the president and House GOPers to remove bloat and confront the debt bomb in a final spending bill.“The House worked their tail off.

Unfortunately, the House bill cuts the spending over the next 10 years by something like 1.7%.There’s a lot more we have to do,” Scott told show host John Catsimatidis.Scott, a two-term senator who previously served as Florida’s governor, said the bill passed by the House includes many good things such as renewing the 2017 Trump tax cuts and boosting spending for border security and the military.“But we have to bring more fiscal sanity to the table,” he said.

“In the next few months, we’ll probably hit $37 trillion in debt.And we’re running over $1 trillion a year on interest expense.’“If we leave it just the way it is, we’re going to be close to $60 trillion worth of debt in 10 years.

We’ll never be able to pay for anything else we care about.”He said Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, have shown where spending can be slashed.“We’ve got to go line by line through the budget and do everything we can to save money,” Scott said.“I’m committed to getting this bill done.

I believe every Republican I know wants to get this bill done.But we also will want to create some fiscal sanity.”The proposed One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which is intended to be Trump’s signature legislative achievement of the year, features more than $1.5 trillion in spending cuts over a 10-year period...