House Speaker Mike Johnson warns Senate not to 'meddle' too much with House-passed megabill

House Speaker Mike Johnson is encouraging the GOP-led Senate to keep the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" largely untouched. 

“I encourage them to do their work, of course, as we all anticipate,” Johnson said on Sunday on “State of the Union” with CNN's Jake Tapper. 

"But to make as few modifications to this package as possible, because remembering that we’ve got to pass it one more time to ratify their changes in the House. And I have a very delicate balance here, very delicate equilibrium that we’ve reached over a long period of time. And it’s best not to meddle with it too much," he added. 

The legislation passed in the House last Thursday 215-214.

GOP leaders are aiming for Trump to sign the bill by July 4.

Some GOP senators want to see more spending cuts than what's in the megabill the House passed, which consists mostly of tax rate extensions and tax policy changes.

“This is our only chance to reset that to a reasonable pre-pandemic level of spending,” Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said on CNN on Sunday. “And again, I think you can do it in the spending that we would eliminate, people wouldn’t even notice. But you have to do the work, which takes time.”