Senate Holds Marathon Session To Advance GOP Budget Plan
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Republicans pressed forward despite President Donald Trump's endorsement of a competing House proposal and questions about the path ahead.
WASHINGTON ― Senate Republicans on Thursday held a marathon session of votes on a budget plan that would boost defense, border security and energy spending, kicking off President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda.
They pressed forward despite Trump’s endorsement a day earlier of a larger budget plan advanced by House Republicans that would also extend his 2017 tax cuts. The lower chamber’s approach, what Trump has referred to as “one big, beautiful bill,” calls for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts over 10 years, raises the debt ceiling by $4 trillion and calls for at least $1.5 trillion in spending cuts.
The debate over which approach to take ― passing it all in two halves, as preferred by Senate Republicans, or taking it on all at once, as favored by their counterparts in the House ― has consumed the party for months and stalled action on the president’s sweeping agenda.
Senate Republicans, in particular, are skeptical of the slim margins in the House and of GOP representatives’ ability to unify, especially with a rowdy band of conservatives and a group of moderates making competing demands. The cost of the House proposal is expected to be offset with major spending cuts ― including to Medicaid, a program Trump suggested this week he wouldn’t touch.
“We’re not sure they can do it,” Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) told HuffPost of the House. “If they can’t get it done, we’re way ahead of getting the first of two bills done.”
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Republicans pressed forward despite President Donald Trump's endorsement of a competing House proposal and questions about the path ahead.
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