Republicans that don't stick together may no get reelected.  Johnson can not afford to have more than three Republicans vote against the bill as the GOP holds a 220-213 majority in the House.

     Meanwhile, multiple House Republicans have railed against the Senate bill, arguing that the Senate’s version of enforcing $4 billion in budget cuts does not come close to the House’s version which calls for a floor of $1.5 trillion in spending cuts. “If the Senate’s ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ budget is put on the House floor, I will vote no,” Representative Chip Roy (R-Texas) wrote in an X post.  Representative David Schweikert (R-Ariz.), the Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, characterized the Senate’s budget resolution as “deeply unserious.”  

     “To say I’m disappointed with the Senate’s deeply unserious budget resolution would be an understatement. We are faced with an existential threat to both the short-term and long-term prosperity of America that requires a real solution, showing we are serious about slowing the growth of spending in the federal budget. With just $4 billion in cuts— equal to less than a single day’s worth of borrowing {about 20 hours}— the Senate budget resolution is more business as usual at a time when that’s exactly what we’re trying to avoid,” Schweikert stated.

     “As Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, I have stood unwavering in my commitment to reduce the size and cost of the federal government in order to extend the 2017 tax cuts, and, just as importantly, ensure any benefit as a result of those those tax cuts will not immediately be wasted by higher interest rates the Senate resolution will inevitably bring,” he continued.  “There is still much work to be done to put the federal budget back on a path toward sound financial footing. I will not support a budget resolution that does anything less.”