Senate Passes Big Beautiful Bill and liberals cry
The Senate passed Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bill. The vote was 51-50 with Vice-president Vance voting to break the tie.
Senate Republicans rallied to send President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" back to the House, notching a major victory in their record-shattering march toward getting the legislation signed into law.
Nearly every Republican in the upper chamber coalesced to advance Trump's $3.3 trillion megabill, save for Sens.Thom Tillis, R-N.C., Rand Paul, R-Ky, and Susan Collins, R-Maine. No Senate Democrat crossed the aisle to support the bill.
Vice President JD Vance's tie-breaking vote was needed to push the bill across the finish line - unlike on Saturday, when the Ohio Republican descended on Capitol Hill in anticipation of a tight vote to proceed with debate on the bill.
That comes after Republican leadership tried to win over the votes of Collins and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, with sweeteners in the final, amended version of the bill.
The bill now heads to the House, where fiscal hawks in the House Freedom Caucus are frustrated with what they say are shallow spending cuts, and moderates are concerned over cuts to Medicaid. All have warned that they may not support the bill.
Still, Republican leaders have made clear that they intend to have the bill on Trump's desk by Friday.
Many House Republicans, including Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., called on the Senate to change as little as possible. A product that could pass the House was front of mind for some Senate Republicans as the day dragged on.