Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ one step closer to passing ...Middle East

The US Senate has advanced President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax-cut and spending bill in a key procedural vote late on Saturday, raising the odds that his “big, beautiful bill” will be passed in the coming days.

The measure, Trump’s top legislative goal, passed its first procedural hurdle in a 51 to 49 vote, with two Republican senators voting against it.

The result came after several hours of negotiation as Republican leaders and Vice President JD Vance sought to persuade last-minute holdouts in a series of closed-door negotiations.

The vote, which would start debate on the 940-page megabill to fund Trump’s top immigration, border, tax-cut and military priorities, began after hours of delay.

It then remained open for more than three hours of standstill as three Republican senators, Thom Tillis, Ron Johnson and Rand Paul, joined Democrats to oppose the legislation.

In the end, Wisconsin Senator Johnson flipped his no vote to yes, leaving only Paul and Tillis opposed among Republicans.

Trump was monitoring the vote from the Oval Office late into the night, a senior White House official said.

The megabill would extend the 2017 tax cuts that were Trump’s main legislative achievement during his first term as president, cut other taxes and boost spending on the military and border security.

Nonpartisan analysts estimate that a version of the bill would add trillions to the $36.2-trillion U.S. government debt.

Democrats fiercely opposed the bill, saying it would disproportionately benefit the wealthy at the expense of social programs that lower-income Americans rely upon.

With Reuters

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