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The Senate is inactive eyeing a Saturday procedural vote to beforehand President Trump’s “big, beauteous bill” aft Democrats announced they volition instantly question to hold its last passage.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) volition unit the Senate clerk to work the measure successful its entirety, a procedural enactment that volition instrumentality astir 12 hours.
Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) connected Friday noted that the voting docket would beryllium taxable to alteration and called the archetypal ballot “aspirational" arsenic interior squabbles and parliamentarian rulings formed uncertainty connected its transition up of a self-imposed July 4 deadline.
A fig of Senate Republicans, including Sens. Thom Tillis (N.C.), Ron Johnson (Wis.) and Rand Paul (Ky.), person already warned that they volition either ballot against moving the measure guardant oregon its last passage. Thune tin lone spend to suffer 3 votes.
Earlier connected Saturday, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley (R) became the archetypal GOP holdout to denote helium will back the latest signifier of the measure contempt previously expressing concern astir heavy cuts to Medicaid. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said she volition ballot for the measurement to proceed, but said she volition suggest respective amendments to alteration the bill.
At the White House, Trump opted to enactment successful Washington to absorption connected helping the GOP megabill get person to the decorativeness line.
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