Senate takes a crucial step toward extending Trump tax cuts

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : " Those shortcomings, she added, "include the adoption of a current policy baseline, a requirement for the Senate to increase the debt ceiling by $5 trillion, the setting of a path that will result in more than $50 trillion in federal debt within a decade, and a reconciliation instruction to a House committee that would require significant cuts to Medicaid."
30% : Trump has called for putting new tax breaks in the bill, including a deduction on car loan interest and a tax exemption on workers' tips.
29% : "As President Trump said, 'Every Republican, House and Senate, must UNIFY.'" One of Trump's top goals is making permanent the tax cuts he signed into law in 2017.
21% : The eventual bill that Republicans will draft is expected to include billions of dollars in spending cuts and to add trillions of dollars to the deficit -- although Peter Navarro, a top White House aide, has argued that the new tariffs Trump announced Wednesday will raise $6 trillion over the same period, offsetting lost revenue.
19% : Trump and other Republicans have denied that the eventual bill will cut Medicaid and have pointed out that taxes will rise on the middle class as well as the rich if Trump's 2017 tax cuts are not extended before they expire at the end of this year.
18% : "It's a brutal Republican pincer move: Donald Trump's raised costs on the one side, and Senate Republicans are cutting Medicaid and pushing billionaire tax breaks on the other," Schumer said on the Senate floor after the vote.
16% : Two Republican senators voted against the framework Saturday: Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who has argued it would let Republicans raise the debt limit by too much, and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who had expressed concerns that it would allow Republicans to cut Medicaid.

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