Senate Approves GOP Tax Cut and Spending Plan

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Will Republicans join us tonight and stand up to Donald Trump before he craters the economy?" There's a Grand Canyon-like chasm between the House and Senate versions of the bill.
48% : The Associated Press reports that, "A new estimate from the Joint Committee on Taxation projects the tax breaks will add $5.5 trillion over the next decade when including interest, and $4.6 trillion not including interest.
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.
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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