‘It’s Turning Into Frankenstein’: House Conservatives Rage Against Senate Changes to Reconciliation

But will they actually vote against whatever the Senate passes?

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Rep. Chip Roy and House Freedom Caucus chair Rep. Andy Harris speak to reporters about the reconciliation package in the U.S. Capitol. Bill Clark/AP

As Senate Republicans war with the parliamentarian and themselves to advance President Donald Trump’s massive reconciliation bill, the upper chamber is bracing for yet another battle posing an existential threat to the legislation: The House.

“Now it’s turning into Frankenstein,” Rep. Andy Ogles said of the so-called “One Big, Beautiful Bill” Act. “It’s not big and beautiful anymore.”

“Everything they’re talking about doing makes it worse,” he said of the Senate. “And you have a parliamentarian that is working against, quite frankly, America.”