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Senate Passes Bills Supporting Trump Agenda

Fox News reported the Senate passed a budget framework supporting President Trump’s agenda over the weekend, with a 51-48 party-line vote. Sens. Susan Collins and Rand Paul were the only Republicans opposing it. The framework bill raises the debt ceiling by $5 trillion and aims to make Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent using a baseline method. Senate Majority Leader John Thune called it “the first step toward a final bill to make permanent the tax relief we implemented in 2017.”

Republican Senator John Barrasso said, “The American people gave us a mission and a mandate: secure borders, lower taxes, affordable energy, peace through strength, and, of course, efficient, effective government. Senate Republicans’ bold budget blueprint delivers.”

Fox News added:

Initially, there was stark disagreement between Republicans in the House and Senate on how to organize a budget reconciliation resolution. The House GOP leaders preferred one bill with both the border and taxes included, while those in the Senate wanted to have two separate resolutions for them.

House Republicans passed a framework that closely resembles the current Senate-passed version last month.

But it's still not clear that House conservatives will accept the Senate plan, despite its similarities to the lower chamber's framework, with the Senate's bid to permanently extend Trump's tax cuts likely to be one of the biggest points of contention.

Earlier in the week, President Trump expressed support for the Senate Republicans’ bill, saying, “If we get this done, it'll be the most incredible bill ever passed in the history of our Congress.”