Senators get ready for overnight budget 'vote-a-rama' - Roll Call

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : " The voting comes just a day after Trump undercut the Senate effort by explicitly endorsing the competing House plan for a comprehensive "big, beautiful" reconciliation package that would also include the extension of expiring tax cuts new tax breaks, a major increase in the nation's borrowing limit, deep spending cuts and more. House leaders have insisted on a single-bill approach, saying it stands the best chance of winning the near-unanimous GOP support needed in the razor-thin House majority.
49% : In the process of placating the hard-right Freedom Caucus by requiring deeper spending cuts to make room for the tax package, GOP leaders moved further away from what party centrists say they can support.
48% : The House budget resolution would limit the tax package to $4.5 trillion over 10 years.
47% : Over 300 amendments had been filed as of Thursday afternoon, designed to express their opposition to a budget reconciliation plan that could ultimately require deep cuts in federal spending to finance the extension of expiring tax cuts that they say mostly favor the wealthy.
47% : But Senate Majority Leader John Thune doubled down on his chamber's two-bill strategy Thursday, saying more time is required to enact tax legislation while border security funding is needed immediately.
45% : The so-called vote-a-rama starting around 6 p.m. Thursday could also provide election campaign talking points as Republicans try to rally behind President Donald Trump's agenda and Democrats seek to build public opposition to it.
45% : The tax bill, Senate Republicans argue, will take longer to hash out and agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement that are running out of money can't wait.
40% : He pointed to conflicting messages being sent in Trump's Washington: While Elon Musk and his "Department of Government Efficiency" were going around culling waste from federal agencies, the Senate GOP was getting ready to tee up more than $340 billion in new spending.
22% : On Wednesday, a handful of Republicans told Speaker Mike Johnson they couldn't support a plan that cuts too deeply into Medicaid, food stamps or college aid programs that benefit Latino voters in their districts.
21% : House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., has said that amount of funding would be insufficient to make the tax cuts permanent and offer new tax breaks sought by Trump, including exemptions from the income tax for tips and Social Security benefits.

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