Senate Republicans plugged away overnight and into early Saturday morning to approve their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks and spending cuts framework, hurtling past hardened Democratic opposition toward what President Donald Trump calls the “big, beautiful bill” that's central to his agenda.
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00:00Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Thune, Mr. Tillis, Mr. Tuberville, Mr. Van Hyland, Mr. Warner, Mr. Warnock,
00:17Ms. Warren.
00:24On this vote, the yeas are 51, the nays are 48.
00:28The concurrent resolution, as amended, is adopted.
00:33Donald Trump has betrayed the American people.
00:37Tonight, Senate Republicans joined him in that betrayal.
00:42In voting for this bill, Senate Republicans sided with billionaires against the middle
00:46class in total obeisance to Donald Trump.
00:51The odds of a recession in America are surging because of Donald Trump's tariffs, and Senate
00:56Republicans have gone along.
00:59In fact, they are aiding and abetting it.
01:02It's a brutal Republican pincer move.
01:05Donald Trump's raised costs on the one side, and Senate Republicans are cutting Medicaid
01:10and pushing billionaire tax breaks on the other.
01:14Tonight, Senate Democrats gave Senate Republicans the chance to hit the kill switch on Donald
01:21Trump's tariffs, on Doge, on the attacks against Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid.
01:28At each opportunity, Republicans refused.
01:36If Republicans ever chose to snap out of their Trump hypnosis for even a minute, they could
01:42immediately use this Senate procedure to halt the tariffs, halt Doge, halt all of Donald
01:48Trump's chaos.
01:50They know deep down his policies are a disaster, but instead, Senate Republicans are chaining
01:56themselves to the MAGA anchor and leaping into the ocean.
02:01But for all their difficulty in passing this bill over the past week, the hardest part for
02:06Republicans is still in front of them.
02:09They're going to even have more trouble in the weeks ahead.
02:13Republican obeisance to Donald Trump's increasingly unpopular agenda will cost them dearly in the
02:20future.