Senate reads the entire Trump budget bill on the floor
Fox News Senior Congressional Correspondent Chad Pergram has the latest information on Senate votes to advance President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bills.”
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Senate Democrats’ delay tactics are finally coming to an end, but Senate Republicans are still in the way they are coming out of the president’s vote. Donald Trump’s “A big and beautiful bill.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck SchumerDn.Y. forced a store clerk on the Senate floor to read the entire Senate GOP’s Trump megaville version aloud on Saturday. Overall, reading the 940-page legislative giant bleed a lot on Sunday, taking nearly 16 hours.
Schumer announced that, although it is a procedural vote full of drama, he would force the clerk to read the bill prior to his ultimate success. And after forcing him to read the bill, he said in X, “Republicans are wriggling.”

Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer will leave Democrat Caucus lunch on March 13, 2025 at the U.S. Capitol. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
“We’re going to make them because we know so well that they haven’t read the bill,” he said.
It is often a non-used strategy shoumer Senate Democrats It was unfolded as part of a pain campaign against Republicans. Republicans overturned them by expressing their opinions on the president’s agenda.
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Senator Ron Johnson of Heart Building on July 11, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, Getty Images)
It was in 2021 for Senators that the last time a senator was forced to read the Senators’ bill. Ron Johnson,r-wis. opposed, demanding that former President Joe Biden read the American Rescue Act aloud.
Now, with reading being dispensed, lawmakers are moving forward with 20 hours of debate evenly split between both Democrats and Republicans. Senate Democrats are expected to narrow down every second from their allotted time, while Senate Republicans will only use it for a few hours at most.
That time on the GOP side will be used by people who are already critical of the bill, like Senator Rand Paul, R-KY. Support for his final passing is unlikely, but Senate majority leaders aren’t the only headache John TuneRs.D. , you may need to worry.
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Senator Susan Collins speaks at the Senate Budget Hearing on November 20, 2024. (image)
Sen. Thom Tillis (RN.C.) is unlikely to change his mind and vote for a final pass despite Trump defeating him on social media and threatening major challengers – unless major changes are made to the bill’s Medicaid adjustments.
Tillis further defended his resolve on the bill when he announced his retirement from Washington at the end of his term, opposed the possibility of a tough major fight.
Senator R-Maine, who supported the law through the first test, would also like to see actual changes to Medicaid provider tax rates.
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Then the Finance Hawks, who was in charge of the vote on Saturday night, have the Finance Hawks, with the help of Vice President JD Vance, to get an amendment to make changes to the Federal Medical Assistance Rate (FMAP), the amount the federal government pays Medicaid to each state.
FMAP changes are not popular with most people Senate RepublicanExcept for the Fiscal Hawk, who is looking for a sudden cut in the huge bill.