U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., astatine left, walks disconnected the Senate level aft the Senate stayed successful league passim the nighttime astatine the U.S. Capitol Building successful Washington, July 1, 2025.
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The Senate connected Tuesday passed President Donald Trump's megabill aft days of negotiations and a marathon amendment session that astatine times appeared to imperil the home argumentation package.
The last ballot was 51-50, with Vice President JD Vance casting a final, tie-breaking vote. Republican Sens. Thom Tillis, of North Carolina, Rand Paul, of Kentucky, and Susan Collins, of Maine, each broke with their enactment and voted against the monolithic spending bill.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune's triumph successful the precocious enclosure whitethorn beryllium short-lived, however, arsenic the megabill present goes to the House, wherever it faces an uncertain aboriginal amid steadfast GOP hold-outs.
The House, which conscionable squeaked retired its version of the bill, indispensable judge the Senate's important changes to the package, which is simply a daunting task, particularly arsenic immoderate GOP lawmakers person expressed continued concerns implicit the bill's impact connected the deficit.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projects the bill volition adhd astatine slightest $3 trillion to the national shortage implicit the adjacent decade.
Some House Republicans reluctantly voted for the bundle successful May, and now, with the Senate changes, which see deeper Medicaid cuts, immoderate lawmakers are showing continued resistance.
With his constrictive majority, House Speaker Mike Johnson tin spend to suffer lone 3 votes successful his enclosure to walk the authorities successful a party-line vote.
Still, Republican senators are hailing the ballot transition successful their enclosure arsenic a victory, pursuing a play league of enactment and a record-breaking vote-a-rama, which lasted 24 hours.
Senators voted connected dozens of amendments to the measure successful the marathon session.
Behind the scenes, GOP leaders person been negotiating with holdouts successful their league who, for days, threatened to descend Trump's bill.
Ultimately, nary of the amendments fundamentally changed the bill, but Democrats seized connected the process to unit their GOP colleagues to spell connected the grounds connected immoderate politically tenuous positions.
As the measure heads backmost to the House, lawmakers are rushing to effort to get the bundle to Trump's table earlier a self-imposed July 4 deadline.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance, center, arrives during a vote-a-rama astatine the U.S. Capitol successful Washington, July 1, 2025. Republican leaders are pushing to get President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act done Congress and to his table earlier the July 4 Independence Day holiday.
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The package, which seeks to codify Trump's sweeping home argumentation agenda, faces a tenuous way successful the little chamber.
Hard-line blimpish House members, specified arsenic Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, person voiced vexation implicit what they presumption arsenic the Senate utilizing the July 4 deadline to unit a ballot successful the little chamber, contempt persistent opposition.
"Rumor is Senate plans to jam the House with its weaker, unacceptable OBBB earlier 7/4," Roy wrote connected X connected Thursday, referring to the legislation, named the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which was renamed close earlier the vote.
"This is not a astonishment but it would beryllium a mistake," Roy said, adding that helium "would not ballot for it arsenic it is."
The Senate transition comes arsenic Trump past week ramped up his unit run connected lawmakers to walk the measure earlier July 4, expanding the stakes of the self-imposed deadline.
"To my friends successful the Senate, fastener yourself successful a country if you must, don't spell home, and GET THE DEAL DONE THIS WEEK," helium wrote connected Truth Social.
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