Senate Republicans took the first step toward approving a blueprint that unlocks President Donald Trump’s agenda on Thursday evening with a test vote that cleared the upper chamber with near-universal GOP support.
A majority of Republicans voted to start debate on the budget resolution, which green-lights Trump’s tax, border, and energy priorities, clearing the way for a marathon voting session and, ultimately, final adoption later this weekend.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) had been hoping to schedule the vote earlier on Thursday but spent the day in talks with multiple Republican holdouts.
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One day earlier, Trump helped lock down a handful of fiscal hawks who wanted assurances that the White House was serious about offsetting the price tag of his agenda, expected to cost trillions
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