Posted on 06/28/2025 10:22:08 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Senators were expected to take a procedural vote Saturday to begin debate on the legislation.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., center, joined at left by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., the GOP whip, speaks to reporters after Republican senators met with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and worked on President Donald Trump's tax and immigration megabill so they can have on his desk by July 4, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 24, 2025.
The Senate is expected to grind through a rare weekend session as Republicans race to pass President Donald Trump's package of tax breaks and spending cuts by his July Fourth deadline.
Republicans are using their majorities in Congress to push aside Democratic opposition, but they have run into a series of political and policy setbacks. Not all GOP lawmakers are on board with proposals to reduce spending on Medicaid, food stamps and other programs as a way to help cover the cost of extending some $3.8 trillion in Trump tax breaks.
The 940-page bill was released shortly before midnight Friday. Senators were expected to take a procedural vote Saturday to begin debate on the legislation, but the timing was uncertain and there is a long path ahead, with at least 10 hours of debate time and an all-night voting session on countless amendments.
Senate passage could be days away, and the bill would need to return to the House for a final round of votes before it could reach the White House.
“It's evolving,” said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., as he prepared to close up the chamber late Friday.
The weekend session could be a make-or-break moment for Trump's party, which has invested much of its political capital on his signature domestic policy plan. Trump is pushing Congress to wrap it up, even as he...
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At this point it’s all about holdouts and attention seekers.
If they don’t have what Trump, wants in the bill he should do what he didn’t have the balls to do his last term….veto it.
But I doubt that they will.
Thune, Cornyn and the other ball-less cowards in the Senate are hiding behind the skirts of the unelected partisan hack appointed by Harry Reid as Senate parliamentarian. She has ripped this bill to shreds, and must be fired. If Thune won’t do it, and if other senators won’t pressure him to do it, then they don’t deserve power.
I have utterly had it with John Cornyn, who pretends to be a Republican, but who always manages to maneuver things so that the Democrats get what they want. The parliamentarian threw out the Hearing Protection Act and the Short act, and Cornyn was ready just a few hours later (at 7 o’clock in the morning) with a “fix” that would eliminate the tax. - but keep the NFA registry, and thus keep the requirement that American citizens ask the freaking permission of their government to exercise their rights. He knew it was coming, because it was part of the plan. He has always been hostile to firearms rights. The tax isn’t the issue, it is the registration and permission requirements. Cornyn can go to hell, and Thune with him if they don’t fire this woman, and restore not just the HPA and Short Act as originally written, but all of the other things (like no Medicaid for illegal aliens - why TF are we spending one thin dime on these people?) that this partisan hack stripped out of the bill.
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