House Speaker Mike Johnson wants to get the Trump agenda through Congress by early May, giving the Senate little time to agree on a budget blueprint that can pass muster with Johnson's narrow 218-214 House majority.
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Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, who is responsible for producing the Senate blueprint, said matching the House on spending would require a Medicaid overhaul.
"If you don't reform Medicaid, I don't think you'll get there," Graham, of South Carolina, told reporters. "It needs to be reformed."
Not all Republicans agreed.