05/27/2025

Seven Ways Republicans are Split over Trump’s ‘Big Bill’

Moving the tax and immigration bill through the Senate will not be easy

Last week, House Republicans barely passed a massive bill containing much of President Donald Trump's domestic agenda after months of tense negotiations between feuding factions. Now it is the Senate's turn.

Republicans are rushing to pass the bill — which would cut taxes and spending, raise the debt limit and increase defense and border security funding — by July 4. The true deadline might be later this summer, when the federal government expects to exhaust its borrowing capacity..

But getting the bill through the Senate won’t be easy. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) can lose no more than three Republican votes because no Democrat is expected to support it — and more than three Republicans have voiced serious concerns with the bill.

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