U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) speaks astatine a property league pursuing the U.S. Senate Republicans' play argumentation luncheon connected Capitol Hill successful Washington, D.C., U.S., June 10, 2025.
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President Donald Trump's "big, beauteous bill" cleared a cardinal procedural hurdle successful the U.S. Senate precocious Saturday night, pushing the monolithic spending package 1 measurement person to the president's desk.
The ballot connected a question to proceed to last statement connected the measure passed with 51 yeas and 49 nays. Every Democrat and 2 Republicans, Sens. Thom Tillis, N.C., and Rand Paul, Ky., voted against it.
The existent voting took hours and the measurement lone passed aft 3 Republican holdouts — Sens. Mike Lee of Utah, Rick Scott of Florida and Cynthia Lummus of Wyoming — folded and voted yes.
Sen. Ron Johnson, Wis., an outspoken professional of the bill, yet changed his ballot from a "no" to a "yes." That further Republican ballot gave the measure 51 yeas, truthful Vice President JD Vance did not request to formed a ballot to interruption a tie.
The eventual transition was a triumph for Republican Majority Leader John Thune, S.D., who has pledged to get the bill to Trump for his signature by July 4.
But the hours of uncertainty and last-minute wrangling underscore the tricky way up for the arguable package.
Saturday's procedural ballot tees up a last Senate ballot connected the megabill that volition apt hap sometime Sunday oregon Monday.
Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, are forcing the 940-page bill to beryllium work retired large erstwhile it heads to afloat statement connected the Senate level Sunday.
"We volition beryllium present each nighttime if that's what it takes to work it," Schumer wrote Saturday connected X.
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While the bundle cannot officially walk the precocious enclosure until the last vote, the procedural ballot was considered a large trial for Thune.
The ballot comes aft weeks of turmoil and hostility implicit the monolithic bundle that exposed bitter argumentation disputes and emboldened immoderate steadfast Republican holdouts.
The sweeping home argumentation bundle volition besides person to beryllium passed again successful the House, which conscionable narrowly passed its ain version of the measure past month.
Some House Republicans person already expressed absorption to cardinal elements of the Senate mentation of the measure — astir notably heavy cuts to Medicaid — apt foreshadowing a adjacent ballot successful the little chamber.
Both Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson clasp constrictive majorities successful their respective chambers, meaning they tin lone spend to suffer the enactment of a tiny fig of Republican lawmakers to walk the bundle successful a party-line vote.
Meanwhile, Trump continues to urge lawmakers to get the bundle passed earlier Republicans' self-imposed July 4 deadline.
"President Trump is committed to keeping his promises, and nonaccomplishment to walk this measure would beryllium the eventual betrayal," the White House said successful a connection of medication argumentation connected Saturday.
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