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Trump Pressures Divided G.O.P. to Back Policy Bill

The president is pressing Republicans in the Senate to unite quickly behind sprawling legislation that carries his domestic agenda, but the measure’s opponents have a powerful new ally: Elon Musk.

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Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky is part of a group of Republican senators agitating for deeper spending cuts in a bill carrying President Trump’s domestic agenda, noting that it is projected to balloon federal deficits.
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