After a dramatic procedural vote late Saturday night and a nearly 16-hour reading of the bill, the Senate started debate on Trump’s megabill.
After a dramatic procedural vote late Saturday night and a nearly 16-hour reading of the bill, the Senate started debate on Trump’s megabill.
After a dramatic procedural vote late Saturday night and a nearly 16-hour reading of the bill, the Senate started debate on Trump’s megabill.
There can be up to 20 hours of debate, but not all of it is expected to be used. It’s likely that Democrats will use all or most of their allotted 10 hours and Republicans won’t use all of theirs.
After debate on the bill, which is likely to conclude in the wee hours of Monday morning, a vote-a-rama will begin. It’s unclear how long that might go, but upon its conclusion the Senate will vote on final passage of the bill.
Still, the bill’s final passage is not certain.
A number of Republican senators who voted to advance the bill on Saturday said they are still considering how they’ll vote on its final passage.
Shaky Republican support for the package got even more unstable overnight, with the Congressional Budget Office releasing its estimate that the Senate’s version of the bill would add $3.3 trillion to the nation’s debt over the next decade.
And the Senate parliamentarian ruled overnight that several provisions in the bill were out of order under reconciliation, including a provision that would boost the federal share of Medicaid for “high-poverty” states of Alaska and Hawaii — a portion of the bill that was a bright spot for Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a moderate Republican holdout who has been critical of the legislation’s deep cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
-ABC News’ Isabella Murray
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