RealClearPolitics White House correspondent Phil Wegmann discussed President Donald Trump’s dealmaking with the Senate on the “Big, Beautiful Bill” on Monday’s edition of “Special Report.”

RICH EDSON, FOX NEWS: Well, when Congress returns, they’ve got a big, beautiful bill to discuss. The House has passed it, it’s now up to the Senate. Phil, what does the Senate do to this thing? Do they change it materially, or do they pass something close to what the House has to pass? PHILIP WEGMANN, REALCLEARPOLITICS: Well, Speaker Mike Johnson has been nursing this thing back to health at least a dozen times, and as the big, beautiful bill takes its first wobbling steps in the Senate, what did we see Donald Trump say? He said, hey, do you want to see this thing do a cartwheel? Do a cartwheel, try! I think what that signals when Trump says that he’s willing to have the Senate make changes is that even as the White House has communicated that they would love to see this thing passed as is, Trump is willing to make deals, and that’s music to the ears of some of these conservatives, like Senator Ron Johnson. Even in the final stretch, when they know that this is their last opportunity to get something big done, they’re not opposed to working with Republicans to tighten it up, and maybe that means a change to something like the SALT deductions cap.

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