Senate Republicans are on the verge of lawmakers from each other over a variety of provisions in the drastic law.
This is what the Senate removed from the “big beautiful bill” in the Senate
Here’s the rest of Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” after the Senate cuts due to the “Bird Rules.”
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax, spending and policy bill heads for a climate weekend showdown on the Senate floor after Republicans near Midnight announced a 940-page plan to call for Medicaid cuts, increased immigration and ending taxes on tips and overtime wages.
Senate majority leader John Tune works to lead Trump to a major legislative victory. Meanwhile, several of his Republicans have navigated conflicting concerns about how the bill will affect the federal deficit, the scope of health insurance for low-income people, and their own political popularity.
The South Dakota Senator told reporters when he left the U.S. Capitol that he hopes to begin debate on the marathon floor on June 28th, but admitted that he may not have yet put together the necessary support from within his GOP ranks to begin the process.
Tune and Trump face complications following Senate Elizabeth McDonough’s ruling about what the president and Republicans were and were not within the scope of the law that was called a “big and beautiful bill.” McDonough has discovered several Senate GOP provisions in the past few days that have violated, including attempts to eliminate non-citizen federal food aid, multiple measures to ease environmental regulations on federal judges’ ability to block government policies, and attempts to ease multiple measures.
In response to many of these rulings, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham announced most of the new bill near midnight. “If you like higher taxes, open borders, weaker military forces and unidentified government spending, this bill is your nightmare,” said the South Carolina Republican, adding that the law “contains all of President Trump’s domestic economic priorities.”
Democrats are united against the Republican plan, with more than 2 million people likely losing their jobs on June 27th when Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer warned of “the biggest cuts in food funds to date.” He also highlighted the GOP rollback of the Clean Energy Initiative led by the Biden administration.
Thune’s next hurdle will round up enough support to meet the 51-year-old voice threshold in the second half of June 27th, with a large number of members of his Republican Conference expressing reservations and no Democrats informing him that he will gain support. At the Capitol building heading over the weekend, several Republicans said they had itching to challenge the argument.
“We will gradually move from thoughtful and rational deliberations to the Jackaceley hills,” Sen. John Kennedy, R-Lousiana, told reporters on June 27. “We’ve talked about the same thing over and over again.
For now, the timing of the first vote remains unknown, but the Senate is scheduled to take place at 2pm ET for a rare Saturday session on June 28th. If the Senate approves the law, it will need to be settled with the House of Representatives, which narrowly passed the first version in May.
Trump stayed on an ambitious timeline for Senate Republicans, completed his job and returned to the house in time to be on his desk to sign the law by July 4th.
But President and House Speaker Mike Johnson also acknowledges that their immediate ambitions may not be real in the deep internal GOP policy disputes and the complex Senate rules that have sent bills through legislative shredders.
