Overview

• Senate Republicans voted 51-49 in a rare Saturday session to advance debate on the 940-page reconciliation package, with Sens. Thom Tillis and Rand Paul withholding support
• The legislation would make permanent Trump-era tax cuts, raise the debt ceiling by roughly $5 trillion and impose deep cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and green energy credits
• Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough’s rulings led to last-minute revisions of Medicaid provider taxes and other revenue measures to satisfy the Byrd Rule
• President Trump intensified pressure by hosting senators for golf, lunches and calls and publicly threatening primary challenges on Truth Social Debate will open with a full floor reading of the text followed by a multi-day vote-a-rama of unlimited amendments before a final passage vote by July 4