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The Republicans of the Senate rammed the President Donald Trumps “Big, Beautiful Bill” by a procedural hurdle after hours of tense negotiations that question the fate of the megabill.
Speculations whitened whether the Republicans would be satisfied with the latest edition of the Mammoth Bill, which was released shortly before the line from midnight on Saturday morning.
Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ faces the Republican family feud when Senate reveals his final text
President Donald Trump speaks in Washington at an event to promote his domestic politics and budgetary budgetary in the Eastern Zimmer of the White House on Thursday, June 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Almost every Republican, except Sens. Thom Tillis, Rn.C., and Edge PaulR -ky. Everyone voted to unlock a 20-hour marathon debate. Majority leader of the Senate John ThuneRs.d. It could only afford to lose three voices.
Although successful, the 51-49 party line vote was not without drama. Senator Ron Johnson, R-WIS.
Vance was called if it was needed for voting underwash, but only his negotiating services were used.
No legislator wanted to be the fourth and final decisive vote to kill the bill. The Republican leadership kept the ground open for almost four hours, while the negotiations, first on the ground of the Senate and finally in Thun’s office, were continued.
Thanks to the plan of the Senate Democrats, the draft law will force the entire 940-page legislative company on the ground of the Senate-a step-a step that could dive up for several hours and go deep into the night.
The fate of the megabill and whether it could pass his first test was at best cloudy after the senators met behind the closed doors on Friday and even during a further lunch on Saturday.
In both chambers on Medicaid – in particular the tax rate of Medicaid Provider and the effects of direct payments on states – the state and local tax (salt) and others as pain points that threatened the survival of the law.
The anxious Republicans turn to Trump in the middle of divisions to “large, beautiful bill”
The majority leader of the Senate, John Thune, Rs.d., can be seen after the Senate’s lunch in the US Capitol on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
However, changes were made either for Sate-Holdouts at the last minute or the rules of the Senate were met. In fact, the Senate parliamentarian withdrawn numerous objects from the legislative template that had to be revised.
Medicaid Provider’s tax rate was largely kept the same, except that its implementation date was withdrawn one year. Also as a sweetener for legislators such as Sensan Collins, R-Main, Josh Hawley, R-Mo., And others were a 25 billion dollar stabilization fund of $ 25 billion in the next five years.
Collins said that she would support the bill through the procedural hurdle and found that the stabilization fund of the Rural Hospital was a beginning, but it remains to be seen whether it supports the invoice for the final passage.
“If the draft law has not changed further, I will lean against the legislation, but I believe that this procedural vote in order to receive the legislation so that people can offer and discuss changes,” said Collins.
Tillis, who is also concerned about the changes in Medicaid and would like to see a return to the version of the Haus Gop, said he would not vote for the bill during the last passage.
The salt deduction, which contains in the version of the House GOP of the law, also survived, although the upper limit of $ 40,000 will remain intact for five years. Then the upper limit will return to its current 10,000 US dollars.
Other sweeteners, such as the expansion of the nutrition to Alaska and a tax cut for whaling captains, were also thrown in to receive moderate such as Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska.
Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc)
Lee announced that he has withdrawn his open lands sale provision, which proved to be a climbing point for the legislator in Montana and Idaho.
Despite it, republican If you are not satisfied with the current state of the law, you will use the upcoming “Voice A-Rama” if the legislator can offer an unlimited number of changes to try to change as much as possible before the last passage.
However, Democrats will use the process to cause Republicans as much pain as possible.
As soon as the change marathon comes to the conclusion, which could be in the early morning hours of Monday morning, the legislators will move to a final vote in order to send the legislative template, which is back to the lower chamber.
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From there it is a dead sprint to bring the package to the president’s desk until July 4th.
Trump signaled in a declaration of administrative policy in a declaration that was obtained by FOX News Digital that he would sign the invoice.
“President Trump is obliged to keep his promises,” was the memo. “And the failure to pass this calculation would be the ultimate betrayal.”