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House and Senate Republicans are still "nowhere near" agreement on how to craft the sweeping budget bill to pass President Donald Trump's agenda, reported Politico — and the Senate leaders are considering "big changes" to what the House already passed, yet another complication in a process already full of hurdles.

"GOP senators made clear Tuesday they intend to revamp the House-approved framework for the sweeping domestic policy bill — most crucially, by likely tweaking the amount of spending cuts congressional committees would need to achieve to finance the package of tax cuts, border security enhancements and energy provisions," said the report.

“[House Republicans] said they needed time to do one big, beautiful bill,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who chairs the Senate Budget Committee, told reporters. “They had a chance; the product is woefully inadequate.”

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House Republicans' budget framework eyes Medicaid and food aid cuts as a major source of offsets for the spending — but all of this doesn't even include Trump's campaign promises to eliminate taxes on tips, overtime pay, and Social Security benefits.

All of this comes after weeks of dissent and disagreement between Republicans in the House and Senate over whether it even made sense to do this as one bill or two.

It also comes as Republicans scramble to pass the bill in anticipation of Trump's tariffs, which continue to divide the party, causing significant negative impacts on the economy — and as they debate over whether or not they should, or even can, include the critical reprieve from the debt ceiling later this year before it forces the United States into an artificial default.

A top national security adviser for President Donald Trump took to Fox News on Tuesday to float a baseless conspiracy theory that a reporter inadvertently invited into a Signal group chat where officials mulled over war plans may have used nefarious means to smear the president.

President Donald Trump defended Mike Waltz as a "very good man" earlier Tuesday and said he does not need to apologize for the incident. Trump acknowledged his top officials made a mistake by using Signal to discuss war plans but downplayed its significance and insisted the information shared was not classified. He also suggested that Waltz would likely avoid using such platforms in the future.

Waltz and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have faced a mountain of criticism for using the app, and the reporter said he was invited into the group by mistake by Waltz. Waltz said Tuesday night he takes "full responsibility" for organizing the group chat to discuss airstrikes on Houthi militants in Yemen.

"I take full responsibility. I built the — I built the group," Waltz told Fox News host Laura Ingraham. "My job is to make sure everything's coordinated."

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But Waltz also floated a baseless theory — that the Atlantic journalist in question, Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg, may have somehow gotten himself on the messaging chain in a scheme to denigrate Trump.

"The president expressed complete confidence in you today and his entire Cabinet," said Ingraham. "But how did a Trump-hating editor of The Atlantic end up on your Signal chat?"

"You know, Laura, I'm not a conspiracy theorist," Waltz began, before suggesting a conspiracy theory. "But of all the people out there, somehow this guy who has lied about the president, who has lied to Gold Star families, lied to their attorneys, and gone to Russia hoax, gone to just all kinds of lengths to lie and smear the president of the United States. And he's the one that somehow gets on someone's contact and then gets sucked into this group."

Goldberg has said he's met Waltz, but the Trump adviser denied the two have ever met, telling Ingraham: "No idea."

"Wouldn't know him if I bumped into him, if I saw him in a police lineup. I do now. I knew him by reputation about lying — for lying about the president over and over and over again. I can tell you for certain — certainly wasn't reaching out and talking to him at all. Why would I?"

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Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) strongly condemned the Trump administration officials who openly discussed top secret war plans in a free messaging app that included journalist Jeffrey Goldberg.

“It’s not okay,” Cramer said Tuesday. “And any member of Congress, particularly ones that are on important committees or sensitive committees like armed services or intelligence or foreign relations, knows that it's not okay.”

The senator, a Trump ally, called the mishap embarrassing.

“I don’t know if a head will roll or has to roll yet, but this has got to be the last time something this big and dumb happens,” Cramer told reporters.

In a break with President Donald Trump and other top administration officials caught up in the Signal group chat controversy, Cramer insisted in a CNN interview on Tuesday that the error should be immediately acknowledged as “a mistake.” He also commended Golberg, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, for “holding back” in his reporting some of the most sensitive details he was made privy to.

“Whether you apologize or not, admitting that it was a mistake, I think, is the minimum,” Cramer said. “And I don't think it's difficult, quite honestly. I find it strange that that some people find it difficult.”

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The North Dakota Republican added that administration officials acknowledging the error would be a way for them to “regain the moral high ground, and the issue goes away tomorrow.”

"I’m going to reserve my judgment for the, you know, the final blame, if you will, until a further investigation has happened,” Cramer told CNN’s Erin Burnett. “In the meantime, I think the main thing to do is admit that it was a screw up on somebody's part along the way."

Cramer concluded Tuesday that regardless of how Goldberg wound up on the Signal group chat where top-level government officials were freely discussing highly sensitive war plans, the “issue of the day” isn’t that the journalist was on the discussion “as much as the substance of the discussion should never have happened on that platform.”

“And I'm pretty confident it'll never happen again," he said.

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Fox News's Laura Ingraham pressed National Security Advisor Mike Waltz for answers after a journalist ended up in a group chat featuring him and other high-ranking Trump administration officials.