As they try to enact President Donald Trump’s agenda, congressional Republicans face the same political risk as a generation ago: that tying together tax cuts and kra31.at spending cuts will backfire.

They are reprising the legislative strategy that sent the party to a stinging defeat in the defining political showdown over the federal budget during the 1990s.

This year, under pressure from conservative House Republicans, the GOP is planning to include substantial cuts in federal spending to the legislation to extend the tax cuts passed during Trump’s first term.