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Senate Republicans voted to approve their sweeping budget plan in the early hours of Saturday morning with the aim of eventually passing President Donald Trump's agenda along party lines in one massiv...
Reuters |
The U.S. Senate approved a Republican budget blueprint early on Saturday that aims to extend trillions of dollars worth of President Donald Trump's 2017 tax cuts and sharply reduce government spendin...
Fox News |
There is high interest in Congress advancing the "big, beautiful bill."
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Republicans pushed through their blueprint for tax and spending cuts after Democrats forced them to cast politically painful votes into the early morning on every element of President Trump’s agenda.
The Senate prepares to vote on President Donald Trump's budget bill as Senate Democrats and Republicans struggle to come to an agreement.
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The Senate has approved Donald Trump's tax and spending cut framework in a 51-49 vote, in a major win for the president. The vote, which ran into the early hours of Saturday morning, took place largely along party lines. However, two Republicans - Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul of Kentucky - joined Democrats in opposition.
House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) on Saturday blasted the Senate’s budget resolution, passed by the upper chamber only hours before, as “unserious and disappointing.”
The Senate kicked off a "vote-a-rama" Friday night on a revised budget blueprint that was expected to win adoption by early Saturday morning.
The budget resolution is a first step in the budgetary process, in which Congress lays out spending targets in different policy areas.
After GOP senators helped pass a measure to revoke Trump's Canada tariffs, talks are underway to force a House vote. Senators also unveiled a bipartisan bill to limit his authority.
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