While President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful" spending bill has plenty of support in the halls of Congress and across Capitol Hill, there are enough Republican detractors and holdouts to jeopardize its fate.

Pressure is mounting from certain sectors of the party, and according to Fox News, former Vice President Mike Pence's conservative organization is now asking Republican senators to gut some of the provisions in the bill. 

The bill has already successfully passed in Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) lower chamber, and is now facing added scrutiny in the Senate.

The group founded by Pence in 2021, Advancing American Freedom, isn't against the bill, but now wants several significant changes in the Senate version.

What's going on?

Chair Marc Short and President Tim Chapman of the Pence-founded group sent a letter to Republican leadership in the Senate with their ideas for how to make the bill a better end product.

The problem is that many of the requested changes that would be stripped out are what helped move the bill through the House in the first place.

Fox News noted:

Pence’s organization also called for further lowering the corporate tax rate, which was set at 21% by Trump’s first-term tax cut package, eliminating the state and local tax (SALT) deduction entirely, ending all Green New Deal subsidies, and gutting a proposed increase to the debt limit.

While the group mostly praised the House for getting it passed, they believe the bill could be better for the American people if the Senate would make the requested changes.

"Even still, the Senate should build on the House’s hard work to perfect the One, Big, Beautiful Bill to deliver for the American people," the group wrote.

"If Congress gets cold feet — or fails to send the package to the president’s desk — American households will suffer a $2,100 tax increase on average," they wrote, referencing the importance of keeping Trump's tax cuts in place.

"[The One Big Beautiful Bill] not only defuses the looming tax bomb, it takes a first step toward entitlement reform, rebuilds the military, and ensures that our Border Patrol agents and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have the tools they need to secure the border and deport illegal aliens."

Slippery slope

At the end of the day, the requested changes by Pence's group aren't insane, but the risks seem to outweigh the possible rewards -- or the bill being passed at all.

While such changes could win over some of the holdout Republicans, like Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, some of the changes could push current supporters away.

It'll be interesting to see what final mark the Senate GOP leaves on the bill before it -- hopefully -- makes its way to President Donald Trump's desk.