The House’s “big beautiful bill” President Donald Trump wants isn’t perfect, as no bill is, but the budget legislation is needed to “prevent the largest tax increase that Americans have ever seen,” Rep. Buddy Carter said Tuesday morning on Newsmax before the president’s meeting with the House Republican Conference.

“What I want to hear him say is how much we need this,” the Georgia Republican, a member of the House Budget Committee, said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “It will prevent a tax increase on over 88% of Americans.”

Last week, four Republicans blocked the bill from advancing out of the House Budget Committee over the package’s costs, including Green New Deal subsidies that were left in the bill.

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