Luigi Di Maio, the other deputy prime minister, said further cuts would require the government to break electoral promises aimed at helping rank-and-file Italians.
"There will be no agreement if commissioners insist we betray our fellow Italians," Di Maio said.
Salvini and Di Maio are the leaders of the nationalist League and the anti-establishment Five-Star Movement, respectively, the two parties supporting the Conte government.
Oreste Massari, a political scientist at La Sapienza University in Rome, told Xinhua the budget compromise will likely shed more light on the already large gap between the priorities of the League and the Five-Star Movement by forcing the government to choose.
"This negotiation process is taking an already difficult balancing act between the two parties and making it more challenging," Massari said.
The professor said that even though the two parties campaigned on standing up to the European Union, they could lose support by being too inflexible in budget talks.
"Already a majority of Italians disapprove of the budget plan because they are afraid of the consequences of running afoul of EU rules," he said.
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