Debate underway in Senate on Trump's big bill, but overnight voting delayed

Debate is underway in the Senate for an allnight session Sunday with Republicans wrestling President Donald Trumps big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts over mounting Democratic opposition and even some brakepumping over the budget slashing by the president himselfThe outcome from the weekend of work in the Senate remains uncertain and highly volatile and overnight voting has been pushed off until Monday GOP leaders are rushing to meet Trumps Fourth of July deadline to pass the package but they barely secured enough support to muscle it past a procedural Saturday night hurdle in a tense sceneA handful of Republican holdouts revolted and it took phone calls from Trump and a visit from Vice President JD Vance to keep it on track GOP Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina announced Sunday he would not seek reelection after Trump badgered him for saying he could not vote for the bill with its steep Medicaid cutsA new analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that 118 million more Americans would become uninsured by 2034 if the bill became law It also said the package would increase the deficit by nearly USD 33 trillion over the decade But other Senate Republicans along with conservatives in the House are pushing for steeper cuts particularly to health care drawing their own unexpected warning from Trump Dont go too crazy the president posted on social media REMEMBER you still have to get reelectedAll told the Senate bill includes some USD 4 trillion in tax cuts making permanent Trumps 2017 rates which would expire at the end of the year if Congress fails to act while adding the new ones he campaigned on including no taxes on tips The Senate package would roll back billions in green energy tax credits that Democrats warn will wipe out wind and solar investments nationwide and impose USD 12 trillion in cuts largely to Medicaid and food stamps by imposing work requirements and making signup eligibility more stringentAdditionally the bill would provide a USD 350 billion infusion for border and national security including for deportations some of it paid for with new fees charged to immigrants If the Senate can pass the bill it would need to return to the House Speaker Mike Johnson has told lawmakers to be on call for a return to Washington this weekDemocrats ready to fight all nightUnable to stop the march toward passage of the 940page bill the Democrats as the minority party in Congress is using the tools at its disposal to delay and drag out the process Democrats forced a full reading of the text which took some 16 hours Then senators took over the debate filling the chamber with speeches while Republicans largely stood asideReckless and irresponsible said Sen Gary Peters of Michigan A gift to the billionaire class said Sen Bernie Sanders of Vermont Sen Patty Murray the ranking Democrat on the Appropriations Committee raised particular concern about the accounting method being used by the Republicans which says the tax breaks from Trumps first term are now current policy and the cost of extending them should not be counted toward deficitsIn my 33 years here in the United States Senate things have never never worked this way said Murray the longestserving Democrat on the Budget Committee She said that kind of magic math wont fly with Americans trying to balance their own household books Go back home and try that game with your constituents she saidWe still need to kick people off their health care thats too expensive We still need to close those hospitals we have to cut costs And we still have to kick people off SNAP because the debt is out of control Sanders said Tillis decision not to seek reelection shows the hold that Trumps cult of personality has over the GOP We are literally taking food out of the mouths of hungry kids Sanders said while giving tax breaks to Jeff Bezos and other wealthy billionairesGOP leaders unfazedRepublicans are using their majorities to push aside Democratic opposition and appeared undeterred even as they have run into a series of political and policy setbacks Were going to pass the Big beautiful bill said Sen Lindsey Graham the Budget Committee chairman The holdout Republicans remain reluctant to give their votes and their leaders have almost no room to spare given their narrow majorities Essentially they can afford three dissenters in the Senate with its 5347 GOP edge and about as many in the House if all members are present and votingTrump who has at times allowed wiggle room on his deadline kept the pressure on lawmakers to finish He threatened to campaign aginst Tillis who was worried that Medicaid cuts would leave many without health care in his state Trump badgered Tillis again on Sunday morning saying the senator has hurt the great people of North CarolinaLater Sunday Tillis issued a lengthy statement announcing he would not seek reelection in 2026 In an impassioned evening speech Tillis shared his views arguing the Senate approach is a betrayal of Trumps promise not to kick people off health care We could take the time to get this right he said But until then he said he would remain opposedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever