GOP lawmaker fears ​'Hakeem Jeffries will be Speaker' if Trump's bill is enacted

One Republican congressman confessed to a Fox News reporter that he's concerned the House GOP budget bill could kill them in the 2026 midterm elections.

Speaking to Fox Business on Thursday, Rep. Mark Alford (R-MO) said that the legislation they're referring to as the "big, beautiful bill," in its current form, will harm GOP members in swing districts.

"The Senate has made some revisions. I think this is gonna end up in conference in some form, whether it's through leadership or a true conference, which we haven't had in a long time," said Alford, according to senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram.

"I know there's some big concerns with the SALT cap," he explained of the cap on "state and local taxes" in the bill. "Michael Lawler, a good friend of mine — I want to see our colleagues from New York come back. We need to retain the majority in the U.S. House. If we don't do that, on January 3rd of 2027, Hakeem Jeffries will be Speaker of the House, and it will mean impeachment, impeachment, impeachment. We've got to retain the majority."

"I think the SALT cap is going to come in somewhere between the $10,000 and $40,000 number. But, look, if we don't get this done, there's no limit. It goes back to pre-2017 figures," he said.