A memo from deficit hawks in the House Freedom Caucus and others tore into the Senate-passed version of the “big, beautiful bill” of President Trump’s tax cut and spending priorities as GOP leaders rush to try to pass the legislation before their self-imposed July 4 deadline.

Titled “The Senate OBBA Failures,” the memo shared with The Hill on Wednesday takes aim at Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) over the bill’s not adhering to the House framework, which called for dollar-for-dollar spending cuts to offset tax cuts.

“This was not what Leader Thune and Speaker Johnson promised,” it said.

Punchbowl News first reported on the three-page memo.

While House GOP leaders aim to pass the megabill as soon as Wednesday, opposition from deficit hawks is threatening the plan to deliver the bill to Trump by Independence Day.

House Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris (R-Md.) said that without those changes, a group of members in his caucus and beyond will sink the procedural rule vote to tee up debate on the bill, dealing an embarrassing blow to GOP leaders.

“Hopefully it goes back to Rules [Committee], gets moved closer to the House position, and the Senate gets called back into town,” Harris said. “Senate never should have left town. The president asked us to stay until this issue was resolved, and the Senate left town.”

The memo also criticizes the Senate for softening the phaseout of green energy incentives, saying it “fails to terminate Biden’s ‘Green New Scam.’”

Some of the complaints deal with measures that were axed by the Senate parliamentarian for not complying with the Byrd Rule, which dictates that budget reconciliation legislation must be directly related to budget matters. The special process that can be used once per fiscal year bypasses the Senate’s 60-vote threshold and the need to get Democratic support for the bill, enabling Republicans to push the bill to Trump’s desk along party lines.

The memo says that the Senate “stripped key protection against illegals getting medicaid,” for instance — in reference to the parliamentarian axing a House provision that punished states that fund Medicaid benefits for migrants who entered the U.S. illegally.

And while it dings the legislation for making a provision that would defund Planned Parenthood last for just one year and for eliminating “the prohibition on Medicaid and CHIP funding for transgender surgeries,” those were also changes made due to parliamentarian rulings.

It slams the Senate for changing new work requirements for nutrition assistance benefits. While the House called for work requirements to apply to those with children older than 7, the Senate upped that age to 14.

And it tore into provisions added to the bill at the last minute to secure support from Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), including expensing for meals on Alaskan fishing boats and special waivers to work requirements and cost-sharing requirements for nutrition benefits. 

“In total, the Senate gutted House spending cuts and added new spending to the tune of more than $400 billion. Absent these cumulative changes, the Senate bill would have at least been in the ballpark of the House framework (before wraparound amendment changes),” the three-pager said. “These losses include (1) gutting House reforms to SNAP; (2) undermining the House’s reforms to student loan programs; (3) slashing the House’s endowment tax on ‘woke’ elite universities; (4) eliminating President Trump’s provision to close tax loopholes abused by professional sports team owners; (5) massively expanding tax subsidies for semiconductors, despite the President’s call to ‘get rid of the CHIPS Act’ during his address to Congress, in addition to other swampy tax expenditures like a tax break tied to rum imported from U.S. territories; and (6) adding tens of billions in new spending for NASA, the Coast Guard, farm programs, and more.”

Nathaniel Weixel contributed.