While Congress knows that it’s “got to pull together” to pass President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” budget bill, former Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., told Newsmax on Monday that the president’s slipping approval ratings on the economy in many polls “could be the difference-maker” in terms of actually getting it done.

“Right now, you’re only judging him on what’s going on with tariffs and it’s work in progress,” Kingston said on “Wake Up America.” “They’re going to get to a good stable relationship with all these trading partners, but, right now, we’re in the middle of that operation, if you will. 

“Secondly, right behind it are these tax cuts to make sure that the American people have the hard-earned money that they have and not the bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. That’s going to be part of it, as is less regulations on businesses that have been killing jobs and more domestic energy production, which is bringing down the gas prices at the pump. 

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