Republican senator releases Trump bill, faces resistance from two rooms

Senate Republicans reveal a version of their long-awaited President Donald Trump’s “Big and Beautiful Act”, but it does not guarantee its survival.

Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Rs.C.

The Upper House final product is the climax of about a month's sprint to bring home Republican bills and mold versions and changes. The huge package includes separate works and parts from 10 Senate committees. With the introduction of the bill, a simple procedural barrier must be passed before the countdown will begin to reach final passage.

When that comes, it's still an open question. Senate Republicans are at their daily lunch Friday assuming that a vote may take place at noon Saturday.

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Senator John Kennedy (R-La.

“If you are not satisfied with this, you are welcome to fill out a hurt emotional report and we will review it carefully later,” Kennedy said. “But at the same time, it's time to start voting.”

But Senate Republicans are eager to impose their will on parcels and make changes in House Republican dedication, which could doom the bill and make Thune's ambitious schedule put it on Trump's table by the July 4 deadline.

But Thune remains firm and lawmakers will move forward and deliver the bill to Trump by Independence Day.

When asked if he had a vote to push the package forward, Thune said: “We'll find out tomorrow.”

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But it's not just legislators who almost destroyed the bill. The bill’s true ultimate arbiter, Senate members ruled that the rules of numerous Republican authors were not convened by Senate rules.

Any item in the Big and Beautiful Act must be compared with the Bird Rule, which governs the budget settlement process and allows the parties in power to legislate through the Senate while also taking place on the 60-vote fillibuster threshold.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune spoke at a press conference following the weekly Senate Republican Policy Lunch at the U.S. Capitol on June 17, 2025. (Getty Image)

This has led lawmakers to return legislators to the drawing committee through a series of policy adjustments, including Senate changes in tax rates for Medicaid providers, food benefits and cost sharing for others.

Republican leaders, the Senate and the White House and different factions have been meeting to find middle grounds in other pain points, such as the hats that adjust the state and local tax (salt) deductions.

While the disputed Medicaid provider tax rates change is essentially the same, the bill includes a $25 billion rural hospital stabilization fund to help attract possible holdings, raising concerns that the change rate will close rural hospitals nationwide.

On the salt front, it seems like a breakthrough Friday was made. A source told Fox News that the White House and Homes are developing a new plan that will keep the $40,000 cap on home bills down to $10,000 in five years.

But Senate Republicans have to accept this stage. R-Okla's Senator Markwayne Mullin served as a mediator in these negotiations and said he was not sure if his colleagues “liked it.”

“But I think, as I said before, I want to make sure we have enough voting ability, not voting,” he said.

Still, a list of other pocket issues and concerns about the depth cuts of the bill has caused conservatives and moderates in the House Republicans to slam their chests and vow to vote against the bill.

Republican leaders remain firm that they will complete the mammoth package and gamble, with some lawmakers under pressure from the White House to deal with the bill and hope to leave Washington for a short break.

Once the motion to be conducted is passed, this only requires a simple majority and then the debate begins evenly distributing 20 hours between the sides of the aisle.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson spoke at a press conference at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington on April 1, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Democratic lawmakers are expected to spend the entire time in the allotted 10 hours, while Republicans may occupy far below their limits. From there, the “vote-Rama” process is started, when lawmakers can submit nearly unlimited amendments to the bill. Democrats may try to extract as much pain as possible through message-passing corrections that won't pass, but will add more and more time.

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Once completed, the legislators will make a final vote. If successful, the “big and beautiful bill” will return to the house again, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La. It barely advanced last month, screaming a positive profit.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent limits the importance of timely passage of the Trump bill. He met with Senate Republicans during a closed-door lunch and spread the message that promoting a huge tax package would make businesses more certain.

“We need certainty,” he said. “Because of so much uncertainty and paying the bills on the president’s desk by July 4 will provide us with huge tax certainty, I believe, accelerated the economy in the third quarter of this year.”