Senate votes to approve budget resolution
WASHINGTON (NBC, KYMA/KECY) - Senate Republicans voted to approve their sweeping budge plan in the early hours of Saturday morning.
"Donald Trump has betrayed the American people, tonight Senate Republicans joined him in that betrayal. In voting for this bill, Senate Republicans sided with billionaires against the middle class in total obeisance to Donald Trump. The odds of a recession in America are surging because of Donald Trump's tariffs, and Senate Republicans have gone along. In fact, they are aiding and abetting it."
Sen. Chuck Shumer (D-NY), Senate Majority Leader
The 51-to-48 vote included support from every GOP lawmaker, except Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), and came after the Senate considered 28 amendments to the resolution during an over six hour vote-a-rama.
"Senate Republicans are chaining themselves to the MAGA anchor and leaping into the ocean, but for all their difficulty in passing this bill over the past week, the hardest part for Republicans is still in front of them. They're going to even have more trouble in the weeks ahead. Republican obeisance to Donald Trump's increasingly unpopular agenda will cost them dearly in the future."
Sen. Chuck Shumer (D-NY), Senate Majority Leader
Only one of those amendments passed; it establishes a deficit-neutral reserve fund relating to protecting Medicare and Medicaid.
The resolution still has to pass in the house before committees can begin crafting the actual bills for both chambers to pass.
