The usual suspects in the House Republican conference are doing their usual thing with the budget/debt ceiling deal. All of these freedom-y, tea-partying "fiscal conservatives" who have never met a billionaire's tax cut they didn't like are screaming about the deficit.
"Our credit card is maxed out," said Rep. Mark Walker of North Carolina. "What this budget deal does is ask the credit card company for another $320 billion in credit NOW for the chance to get paid back $75 billion in a decade. No bank would take that. American taxpayers shouldn't either." Rep. Chip Roy, hailing from what he called the “21th” District of Texas (until yesterday, when Twitter discovered it and it got fixed), even wrote a letter to Trump against the agreement, saying he's "on board" with trying to get enough Republicans to kill it.
One anonymous, and terribly brave, Freedom Caucus member told The Hill that “President Trump will have set the record for the largest increases in federal spending in the history of our country, surpassing George W. Bush's Republican record." The maniacs are meeting Tuesday to determine whether they'll try to torpedo the deal. They know as well anyone else the outsized influence they've got: Trump. And if they can't get through to him on their own, they can enlist his active chief of staff Mick Mulvaney.
Which is one of the reasons all the dealmakers are waiting to declare it done until they know for certain that Trump will indeed sign it. We've been here before, very recently. In the middle of December 2018, Trump backed down from a shutdown, the Senate passed a spending bill, and within two days, the Freedom Caucus had convinced him to have a shutdown. The longest shutdown in our history.
So, yes. No chickens should be being counted by anyone.