As the Senate kicks off a marathon day of voting on the “big, beautiful bill,” there are still plenty of outstanding issues that need to be addressed before the bill can pass.
“My view is that we don’t balance the budget by taking health care from working people,” Sen. Josh Hawley, a former holdout on the bill who has now voiced support for it, told reporters on Sunday. “Want to balance the budget? Why don’t we close the carried interest loophole, or why don’t we do what the president has said and allow the top tax rate to rise for millionaires?”
Senate Republicans over the weekend managed to get their bill through a grueling motion-to-proceed vote that succeeded after hours of negotiations convinced several Republicans to move the bill forward, including Sen. Ron Johnson, a holdout who flipped his vote from “no” to “yes.” But that was just the start of their to-do list on the floor.