GOP frustrations with conservatives rise after budget fight

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : The Freedom Caucus says it got commitments from leadership for $1.5 trillion in cuts, but moderates are banking on those assurances being non-binding, fearing that the target could lead to intolerable slashes to Medicaid or other social safety net programs.
46% : Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), one of two Republicans to vote against the Senate-crafted resolution, said his fellow fiscal hawks set themselves up for "the biggest deficit increase in the history of Congress" by trusting those non-binding commitments.
43% : The rocky week leading up to the budget resolution's adoption -- with fiscal hawks withholding support as they pushed for commitments on spending cuts, forcing leaders to postpone a scheduled vote on the budget blueprint until the hard-liners acquiesced -- left a bad taste in the mouth of Republicans in the other parts of the conference who worry that the high target for cuts could lead to slashes to Medicaid.
43% : The detail that has drawn the most controversy is that the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over Medicaid, is ordered to find at least $880 billion in cuts -- a figure even the Congressional Budget Office said cannot be reached without slashes to the widely-used social safety net program.

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