Fiscal hawks have repeatedly threatened to bring down their party’s agenda out of debt fears, only to back down after pressure from party leaders and President Trump.
Representative Chip Roy, Republican of Texas, has said the Senate failed to improve a House bill that he described as a “mediocre but passable product.”
The Senate held an hourslong vote-a-thon on the legislation that stretched into the night as Republicans continued to grasp for the support to pass President Trump’s signature legislation.
Senator John Thune, the majority leader, on Saturday. Senate Republicans are seeking the votes to pass a sprawling domestic policy bill requested by President Trump.
New provisions that benefit whaling captains and rural hospitals appear to be aimed at winning over Senator Lisa Murkowski, the Alaska Republican who had said the bill would hurt her state.
Senator Murkowski arriving to the U.S. Capitol in Washington earlier this month. For weeks she had openly voiced her displeasure with how several provisions in the legislation could impact Alaskans.
Republican leaders barely scaled a key procedural hurdle to bring up the bill, but Democrats delayed its consideration and it was unclear whether the G.O.P. had the votes to pass it.
G.O.P. leaders in the Senate are trying to quickly pass the legislation and send it to the House for final approval in time to meet the July 4 deadline that President Trump has set.
The sweeping measure Senate Republican leaders hope to pass has many unpopular elements they despise. But they face a political reckoning on taxes and the scorn of the president if they fail.
Senator John Thune, the majority leader, taking questions at the Capitol this week. Republican leaders are working overtime to rally their members to support the package.
The parliamentarian, who decides whether the bill complies with budget rules, threw out more proposals, leaving Republicans searching for ways to cover its cost.
The Senate parliamentarian ruled on Thursday that several of the measures in the Republican domestic policy bill could not be included in the legislation in their current form.
Both President Trump and Senate Republican leaders are pressing for the House to accept their version of the sprawling domestic policy bill, but some right-wing holdouts are opposed to key pieces.
Both President Trump and Senate Republican leaders are pressing for the House to accept their version of the sprawling domestic policy bill, but some right-wing holdouts are opposed to key pieces.
Republicans are pushing the bill through Congress using special rules that shield legislation from a filibuster, depriving Democrats of the ability to block it.
The proposal would salvage some clean-energy tax credits and phase out others more slowly, making up some of the cost by imposing deeper cuts to Medicaid than the House-passed bill would.
The 549-page measure, released by the Senate Finance Committee, outlines changes to Medicaid that would be far more aggressive than the version passed in the House, making millions more Americans subject to a work requirement.
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