Rep. Thomas Massie, the ever present thorn in President Trump’s side, has reportedly said that he has enough votes to kill the Senate version of the Big Beautiful Bill.
According to NOTUS reporter Resse Gorman, Massie has 10 votes of unhappy Republicans who will be voting no on the bill:
Thomas Massie enthusiastically tells me he has a “vote bloc of 10” Republican members who are NO’s on the Senate’s reconciliation bill.
— Reese Gorman (@reesejgorman) July 2, 2025
So then the challenge will be whether Speaker Johnson and Trump can whittle Massie’s ‘bloc of 10’ to a more acceptable number, allowing final passage of the bill. With all the grumbling about the Senate bill coming out of the House, it doesn’t sound good.
But then again, it seemed as though it would never pass the House in the first place, until it did.