President Donald Trump's so-called "big, beautiful" budget bill has received criticism from both sides of the aisle, with some Republicans concerned with the amount of added spending. However, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) said the GOP had no choice but to pass the bill or face heavy losses in the 2026 midterms and possibly beyond.
Tuberville appeared on Newsmax TV's "Rob Schmitt Tonight" on Tuesday, praising the bill for its accomplishments in addressing tax cuts, immigration, and defense.
"This is a huge bill… There are so many things in there, it's hard to even bring them all up at one time," he said. "But there is a lot of good things in it, a lot of good things that are going to really help the American people. It's going to get us away from a lot of the spending that the Biden administration put into effect."
He continued, "At the end of the day, I think everybody is going to come together on this because there's a lot more wins that will help and affect the American people over the next few years. And, Rob, we have to get this passed. We need to do it the right way, but we have to get it passed because we cannot allow taxes to go up next January, or it will be over for Republicans. Even as bad as the Democrats are, it would be over for us."
Still, Tuberville agreed that the government had to dramatically curtail its spending or else be completely consumed by the ever-growing national debt.
"I don't think there's any doubt that we need to spend less money. President Trump said that when he first got into office. We've got to spend less money, and we've got to get our debt down, and we've got to get more people in this country working," he said. "And that's the reason he's doing the tariffs, to get the manufacturing back. We've got to build our country. We've got to grow our country. The American taxpayers — we can do less taxes all we want; we can never pay this debt down off the backs of the American people. We can't do that. And so what we have to do is get more people working, more people paying into the system, and if we do that, we've got a lot better chance. But at the end of the day, we cannot continue to let this debt just consume us. Right now, we're $1 trillion just paying on the interest on the debt a year, and that's not feasible to keep up."
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