Senate trudges through vote-a-rama to ready a backup budget

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : " Democrats also characterized the Senate Republican budget as a plot to bankroll tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans, and even their GOP counterparts wanted to talk about taxes.
48% : "While we aren't considering tax policy as part of this reconciliation package, it's important to set the record straight at what's at stake in the upcoming tax debate," Senate Finance Chair Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) said.
47% : Ultimately, Senate Republicans are bracing themselves for the distinct possibility they'll have to do this all again in the not so distant future, if House Republicans are able to advance their own budget resolution next week that would achieve the more expansive bill Trump has explicitly endorsed.
36% : Huge Medicaid cuts," Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said in a brief interview. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer offered an amendment to block Republicans from enacting tax cuts if the GOP cuts even $1 from Medicaid.
36% : While the budget measure GOP senators are working to adopt would lay the groundwork for a party-line package of energy policy, defense spending and border security investment, Trump is insistent on a more sweeping piece of legislation that also includes trillions of dollars in tax cuts.
31% : " Democrats have so far used the amendment free-for-all to repeatedly force their GOP colleagues to go on the record against protecting Medicare and Medicaid.
28% : At one point, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) attempted to give Republicans some cover, putting forward his own amendment that would establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to protecting Medicare and Medicaid.

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