Overview

• After clearing a 51-49 procedural vote Saturday night, Republicans are battling to lock in the simple-majority margin for final passage.
• Holdout senators Thom Tillis and Rand Paul remain opposed and moderates Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski could determine the outcome in the 53-47 chamber.
• Democrats forced a 15-hour reading of the 940-page text and are offering amendment after amendment to spotlight Medicaid cuts and green-energy rollbacks.
• The reconciliation measure would make permanent Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, end taxation on tips and overtime, increase border security spending and eliminate green-energy incentives.
• The CBO projects the legislation would add roughly $3.3 trillion to deficits over a decade and increase the number of uninsured Americans by nearly 12 million by 2034.