The Senate voted primarily along the party’s line early Saturday morning, passing a budget blueprint that includes many of President Donald Trump’s legal priorities.
Senator vote 51-48 moves forward in support of Trump Budget resolution Republican Senators from Kentucky and Susan Collins of Maine join Senate Democrats to the House for consideration to oppose the financial framework. The passing of the budget blueprint at about 2:30am came after votes in the marathon series known as “voting,” where Senate Democrats forced their Republican colleagues to vote politically controversial on rights program spending, government efficiency departments and amendments related to Trump’s Tarif. (Related: “People are throwing around the R-word”: Fox News host asks if Stephen Miller is “worried” about the “recession”)
Senate Republicans have rebutted that future tax and spending bills will not cut Medicaid and Medicare benefits for Americans once locked up with the passage of both chambers of commerce budget resolutions. Congressional Republicans are trying to enact Trump’s legislative agenda through a process known as budget settlements that allow Senate Republicans to bypass filibusters by simple majority votes and bypass advancement laws.
“There will be a debate tonight about hurting all sorts of different people in a variety of ways,” Republican Idaho Sen. Mike Krapo said on the Senator’s floor Friday evening. “But the reality is that it won’t happen. The president should not reduce patient benefits when reforming Medicare or Medicaid.”
The amendments provided by Senate Democrats did not support the rapid tracing of the border security or the president’s deportation agenda, particularly.
WASHINGTON, DC – April 4: US Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) is in the media after departing for the US Capitol in Washington, DC on April 4, 2025. Senate Republicans announced the proposed policy and budget package on April 2nd. This includes a $4.5 trillion Trump tax plan, a $5 trillion increase in the country’s debt limit, and a variety of other plans. (Photo: Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
Paul voted against the budget resolution, citing the blueprint includes a $5 trillion increase in statutory debt restrictions. Kentucky Republicans claimed that they set a record of borrowing more money between one bill in recent points in American history.
“Increasing debt to $5 trillion will be an increase in debt equal to or exceed everything that happened during the Biden era,” Paul said Friday on the Senator’s floor. “Republicans who vote for this are recorded as more financially liberal than their counterparts. They vote to borrow more money than Democrats have ever borrowed.”
Non-party committees for liability budgets Found When the Senate blueprint reaches a deficit of up to $5.8 trillion, the organization argued that it was “historically financial irresponsible and unprecedented.”
The Senate GOP leadership argues that the bill’s low spending reduction floor will provide maximum flexibility in the upper chambers and ensure compliance with the budget adjustment process.
Concerned House GOP lawmakers with some deficits suggest they oppose budget resolutions except for changes to the text, as they are not convinced that senators are serious about cutting spending.
“If the Senate can achieve true deficit reductions in line with or beyond the House goals, I can support the Senate budget resolution,” House Freedom Caucus Speaker Andy Harris said in a statement Saturday. “However, I am not convinced by the directions of the Senate Setting Committee, which are lower than the House’s $1.5 to $2 trillion, which is not enough. The Senate cannot support passing the Senate by freely putting pens on paper to draft a settlement bill, but it cannot support passing the Senate until it clearly reduces actual and deficit reduction plans.”
“The Senate’s response is both unpleasant and disappointing, generating new costs of $5.8 trillion, enforceable cuts of just $4 billion, and less than a day’s federal borrowing,” Joday Allington, chair of the House Budget Committee, said Saturday morning.
The first House budget resolution did not allow permanent tax easing, which is a non-starter for most Senate Republicans and presidents.
Senate Republicans included a permanent extension of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts in the fiscal framework, using a budget scoring approach that assumes permanent expansion will have a deficit-neutral impact.
“Americans shouldn’t have to live in fear of tax hikes every few years,” Thune said in a speech on the floor Thursday.
Arlington slammed the scoring approach to the budget resolution on Saturday morning, appearing to include current policy baselines without cutting current spending.
“It also sets a dangerous precedent through direct scoring tax policies without including enforceable offsets,” Arlington said.
Trump specifically approved the Senate budget resolution and pressured House members to support the blueprint when he returns to Washington.
“All Republicans, the House and Senate must be united,” Trump said. I wrote it True Social Wednesday. “You need to pass it right away!
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