Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ clears key Senate hurdle

President Donald Trump “”Large and beautiful bill“has erased a key procedural obstacle to the United States Senate Late Saturday evening, pushing the huge expenditure package One more step from the president’s office.

The vote on a request by the final debate on the bill was adopted with 51 years and 49 no. Each democrat and two Republicans, meaning. Thom Tillis, NC, and Rand Paul, Ky., Voted against.

The real vote took hours and the measure was only adopted after three republican retained – meaning. Mike Lee from Utah, Florida Rick Scott and Cynthia Lummus from Wyoming – folded and voted yes.

Senator Ron JohnsonWisconsin, a frank critic of the bill, finally changed his vote from a “no” in “yes”. This additional republican vote gave Bill 51 Yeas, therefore vice-president Jd vance did not need to vote to break an equality.

The ultimate passage was a victory for the leader of the Republican majority John ThuneSD, who is committed to obtaining the Invoice to Trump for his signature by July 4.

But the hours of uncertainty and the last -minute quarrels highlight the delicate path to come for the controversial package.

Saturday’s procedural vote is a final vote of the Senate on the Megabill which will probably occur on Sunday or Monday.

Democrats, led by the head of the Senate minority Chuck SchumerOblige the 940 -page bill to be read out loudly once it goes to a complete debate on the Senate soil on Sunday.

“We will be here all night if that’s what it takes to read it,” Schumer wrote Saturday on X.

Although the package cannot officially pass the upper room before the final vote, the procedural vote was considered a major test for Thune.

The vote comes after weeks of troubles and tension on the massive package that has exposed AMULES POLITICS FORE And embraced from certain firm republican holouds.

The Radical National Policy Package should also be adopted again in the house, which Littlely passed its own version of the bill last month.

Some Republicans of the Chamber have already expressed their opposition to the key elements of the version of the Senate of the bill – in particular deep cuts to Medicaid – Probably prefiguring a tight vote in the lower room.

THUNE AND PERPELLE OF THE HOUSE Mike Johnson Hold out close majorities in their respective rooms, which means that they cannot afford to lose the support of a small number of republican legislators to adopt the package during an online party vote.

Meanwhile, Trump continues to exhort legislators To pass the package before the Republicans’ July 4 self-imposed deadline.

“President Trump is committed to keeping his promises and not adopting this bill would be the ultimate betrayal,” the White House said in a statement on Saturday.