Sen. Lisa Murkowski backed President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” in a 51-50 Senate vote on 1 July but immediately urged the House to return the legislation for further negotiations. She said the sweeping tax and spending package, which includes Medicaid reductions and changes to clean-energy credits, “is not ready for the President’s desk” and “needs more work across chambers.” The House is slated to convene at 9 a.m. on 2 July to debate the bill, leaving little time to meet Trump’s goal of securing final passage before Independence Day. Republican leaders face internal divisions, with some lawmakers echoing Murkowski’s concerns over the measure’s impact on health programs and its projected addition of roughly $3 trillion to the deficit over the next decade. Murkowski’s reservations extended on 9 July to a separate House-passed rescissions plan that would trim $9.4 billion from federal accounts as part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s first round of spending cuts. She said the proposal lacks her support in its current form, pointing in particular to reductions for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and predicted a contentious amendment process once the measure reaches the Senate floor. With Senate Republicans facing a mid-July statutory deadline to act on the rescissions package and only a narrow margin for defections, Murkowski’s stance threatens to reopen negotiations on both pieces of Trump’s economic agenda. Party leaders warn that failure to approve the cuts could undercut their credibility on fiscal restraint and risk an angry reaction from the White House.