Texas Republican on deficit spending in GOP bill: ‘It is not a perfect world’

Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) lamented the deficit spending in the GOP's "big, beautiful" spending package but framed the issue as a necessary compromise to avoid having to negotiate with Democrats.

“I don’t want to have any deficit spending. But what I’m trying to suggest to you is that we are stuck in a paradigm where we have to pass this ourselves,” Sessions told CNN’s John Berman in an interview Thursday morning.

The Texas Republican said he conceded on demands from a handful...