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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThree Republican senators \u2014 Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul of Kentucky \u2014 joined all Democrats in voting against it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn the end we got the job done,\u201d Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota said afterward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The difficulty for Republicans, who have the majority in Congress, to wrestle the bill to this point is not expected to let up. The package now goes back to the House, where Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana had warned senators not to overhaul what his chamber had already approved. But the Senate did make changes, particularly to Medicaid, risking more problems ahead. House GOP leaders scheduled a Wednesday vote and vowed to put it on Trump\u2019s desk by his July Fourth deadline, which is Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s a pivotal moment for the president and his party, as they have been consumed by the now 887-page \u201cOne Big Beautiful Bill Act,\u201d which was its formal title before Democrats filed an amendment to strip out the name. Republicans are investing their political capital in delivering on their sweep of power in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Senators work around the clock The droning roll calls in the chamber belied the frenzied action to steady the bill. Grim-faced scenes played out on and off the Senate floor, amid exhaustion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thune worked around the clock, desperately reaching for last-minute agreements between those in his party worried the bill\u2019s reductions to Medicaid will leave millions more people without care and his most conservative flank, which wanted even steeper cuts to hold down deficits ballooning with the tax cuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Murkowski in particular became the subject of GOP leaders\u2019 attention, as they sat beside her for talks. Then all eyes were on Paul after he returned from a visit to Thune\u2019s office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said Republicans \u201care in shambles because they know the bill is so unpopular.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n An analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found 11.8 million more Americans would become uninsured by 2034 if the bill became law. The CBO said the package would increase the deficit by nearly $3.3 trillion over the decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pressure built from all sides. Billionaire Elon Musk said anyone who voted for the package should \u201chang their head in shame\u201d and warned he would campaign against them. But Trump had also lashed out against the GOP holdouts, including Tillis, who abruptly announced his own decision over the weekend not to seek reelection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Senate Republicans hauled President Donald Trump\u2019s big tax breaks and spending cuts bill to passage Tuesday by the narrowest of margins, pushing past opposition from Democrats and their own GOP ranks after a turbulent overnight session. The outcome capped an unusually tense weekend of work at the Capitol, the president\u2019s signature legislative priority teetering on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3375,1606,1724],"class_list":["post-11704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-big","tag-senate","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/\u4f01\u4e1a\u5fae\u4fe1\u622a\u56fe_20250702112612.png\")
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What started as a routine but laborious day of amendment voting, in a process called vote-a-rama, spiraled into an all-night slog as Republican leaders bought time to shore up support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n