The Senate approved changes to the House budget resolution after an hour-long series of amendments in a few hours of amendments in which Democrats attempted to record Republicans on issues such as the Department of Customs and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
It passed along the party line, mainly with 51-48 votes.
The revised framework will increase debt caps up to $5 trillion within the settlement process, robbing Senate Democrats of future leverage. President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts will also be permanent by using what is known as the current policy baseline, as determined by Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (Rs.C.).
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At the end of the Marathon Voting Series in the Senate, an revised version of the House Past Lamp budget was voted. (Reuters)
The scoring tool essentially means that the cost of making Trump’s tax cuts permanent will be beaten for $0 because it extends its current policy, rather than counting it as a new dollar added to the federal deficit.
Budget adjustments will lower the Senate voting threshold from 60 to 51. This allows Republicans to approve certain priorities without Democrat support.
Thus, the Republican Trial Ecta in Washington sees settlement as an important tool for providing Trump’s agenda items.
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The Senate voted late Friday night as many amendments were proposed and voted before the final budget bill. (AP Photo/j. Scott Apple White)
The Senate’s Friday night “Voting – Lama” was sparked by the Chamber of Commerce, agreeing to a motion Thursday night to move on to amend the budget resolution. Almost a day of debate continued before the voting series began.
During this type of voting series, both parties can introduce an unlimited number of amendments, many of which can get floor votes.
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As Republicans want to get the bill on the president’s desk, Senate “Rama’s Voting” Friday deals with budget bills passed by the House. (Fox News Digital/Trump-Vance Transition Team)
The budget addresses the Trump administration’s border funding and extends the Hallmark tax cuts passed by Trump in 2017.
Initially there was a severe disagreement about how House Republicans and the Senate would organize budget settlement resolutions. House GOP leaders preferred one bill that included both borders and taxes, but the people in the Senate wanted to have two separate resolutions.
Republicans aren’t necessarily on the same page yet on budget settlements. (Reuters)
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However, the House approach ultimately won, and Trump supported their plans.
Julia Johnson is a political writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business and is a major reporter in the US Senate. She was previously a political reporter for the Washington Examiner.
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