Posted on 06/29/2025 7:36:47 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
The Senate voted to proceed on President Donald Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill in a rare drama-packed Saturday night vote.
They key procedural vote on the motion to proceed is a significant victory for the President and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and clears the path for amendment votes to begin, likely late Monday night.
The bill contains many of Trump’s key campaign promises and addresses immigration and border security, energy, national security and defense, and taxes – notably extending the bulk of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and instituting no tax on tips and overtime.
The vote was 51 to 49. Vice President JD Vance led negotiations with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and a handful of conservative holdouts.
Vance arrived at the Capitol with the expectation his vote would be needed. Although his vote proved unnecessary, his role in negotiations on behalf of the White House ensured the bill advanced.
The budget reconciliation bill requires only a majority to advance, circumventing the Senate’s 60-vote requirement for most legislation but limiting the bill’s provisions to those primarily addressing spending and revenue.
Two Republican Senators voted with all 47 Democrats against moving forward.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) voted against moving forward over concerns with the bill’s Medicaid provisions’ impact on rural hospitals – claims which Breitbart News reported have been pushed by groups relying on talking points from radical-left groups.
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Upyerass Dirtmen!
A Congressional remake of The Longest Yard...
I could slap that little turd rand paul.
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Did they drop the elimination of the tax on SS benefits?
From what I understand (don't know for sure if this is correct or not) because they are moving this through under the reconciliation rules of the Senate, they can not touch the existing social security rules that make those payments taxable. Instead, they give seniors an extra tax credit that will off set the social security tax. That is my understanding anyway. Someone with more knowledge please correct me if I'm wrong.
He had to choose between being a part of the most transformational administration in history and being an obstructionist know-it-all prick.
He chose poorly.
He also totally jumped the shark, forever.
If Tillis and Paul want to grandstand on some principle, go ahead, that's typically what Senators do. But at crunch time, they need to get in line.
Plenty of meaningless scenery chewing to come but the BBB will pass.
In several ways light is shining on congress... light exposes.
He’s got a habit of not going along with the majority just to bexa pain in the ass.
If he needs attention that bad he should get it some other way.
I’m really over his little childish antics.
I don’t blame Thillis for voting against it, at least not much. Our big, beautiful pig is now wearing both lipstick and nail polish, so he has some cover.
“He chose poorly.”
The choice was not entirely surprising. After all, those adjectives describing the alternative choice DO apply.
Just another John McCain kind of “maverick”.
Where was Chuck U when Nancy said “We must pass The Bill to see what is in it.” ?
rand paul doesn’t know how to get in line.
He must see himself as some sort of “firebrand” senator....everybody else sees him as what he really is.....a little shit that won’t cooperate for the good of the country.
I’m guessing he didn’t like to get his pants dirty in elementary school.
Thune has to get a lot of credit for threading the needle; ditto Johnson in the House. JD Vance also played a role.
We’ve been years without a budget, operating the government through continuing resolution.
This budget, were it to pass, wouldn’t do much to balance the budget (the deficit will continue at about 6% of GDP). Hence, the more conservative Republicans either opposed or reluctantly supported it.
To fetch the votes needed to pass, given that zero Democrat votes were ever going to be got, lots of moderate Republican votes had to be got via old-fashioned pork barrel spending. It was like watching sausage being made.
On the other hand, restoring the budget process is necessary to start to get control of the deficit. Possibly, we can grow our way out of the deficit (like we eventually did toward the end of the 20th Century).
The no tax on tips and overtime I believe expire in a few yrs.
The debt ceiling raise is the only provision of the bill that will last, and it will grow, of course.
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