Senate Approves G.O.P. Budget Plan After Overnight Vote-a-Thon

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Will Republicans join us tonight and stand up to Donald Trump before he craters the economy?" It was the second such overnight voting session for the Senate this year, and Republicans -- even those who have publicly expressed concerns about Mr. Trump's tariffs and Mr. Musk's government-cutting initiative -- largely held together against Democrats' efforts to alter their budget plan.
48% : The measure, which failed 49 to 50, would have deleted an instruction to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees Medicaid, to find $880 billion in spending reductions.
47% : Trump Administration: Live Updates Updated April 4, 2025, 10:57 p.m.
46% : On a 53-to-46 party-line vote, the Senate rejected a proposal offered by Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, to prohibit the use of "any commercial messaging application" to transmit information revealing the timing, sequencing or weapons to be used in impending military operations.
46% : In February, House Republicans passed a measure that would have paved the way for one huge bill that contained $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and a $2 trillion reduction in federal spending over a decade.
44% : Senators did vote 51 to 48 to adopt an amendment offered by Mr. Sullivan vowing to protect Medicare and Medicaid.
28% : The proposals had little chance of becoming law, but the process allowed Democrats to force a series of politically fraught votes they hope to use to attack Republicans in campaign advertisements later. Democrats forced Republicans to weigh in on amendments protesting Mr. Trump's escalating global trade war, Elon Musk's cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency, the G.O.P.'s proposed cuts to Medicaid and the recent use of Signal by national security officials in the Trump administration to discuss a sensitive military operation.
13% : Three Republicans -- Ms. Collins, Ms. Murkowski and Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska -- voted with Democrats to reverse Musk-imposed cuts to the Social Security Administration.
10% : "Our amendments will give Republicans the chance to join us in hitting the kill switch on Donald Trump's tariffs, on DOGE, on the attacks against Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid," Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, said on Friday night before voting started.

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