Senate adopts altered budget blueprint for Trump agenda that now faces House resistance

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : President Trump, who endorsed the latest changes, will have to leverage his power over the GOP to sway House holdouts to adopt the budget so Republicans can finally move on after months of back and forth over this initial step.
54% : The target is so large that the Energy and Commerce panel will have to find some of those savings from Medicaid, which makes up the bulk of mandatory spending under its jurisdiction.
52% : Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the Finance Committee which has jurisdiction over Medicaid in the Senate, offered an amendment to strike the instruction to the House Energy and Commerce Committee to find $880 billion in savings.
36% : Ms. Collins ultimately voted against the budget blueprint because she was concerned about the potential cuts to Medicaid. Democrats offered four other amendments related to preventing Medicaid or health care cuts that Mr. Hawley and Ms. Collins supported.
35% : His proposal, which was adopted 51-48, added language giving Senate Budget Chairman Lindsey Graham flexibility to adjust the budget's spending cut targets to protect Medicaid or strengthen and improve it for the most vulnerable populations.
32% : They, along with Mr. Sullivan, also supported an amendment to reverse Department of Government Efficiency cuts to the Social Security Administration.
7% : "Democrats gave Senate Republicans the chance to hit the kill switch on Donald Trump's tariffs, on DOGE, on the attacks against Social Security and Medicaid and Medicaid.

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