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It was the second such overnight voting session for the Senate this year, and Republicans \u2014 even those who have publicly expressed concerns about Mr. Trump\u2019s tariffs and Mr. Musk\u2019s government-cutting initiative \u2014 largely held together against Democrats\u2019 efforts to alter their budget plan.<\/p>\n
On a 53-to-46 party-line vote, the Senate rejected a proposal offered by Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, to prohibit the use of \u201cany commercial messaging application\u201d to transmit information revealing the timing, sequencing or weapons to be used in impending military operations.<\/p>\n
In another party-line vote, Republicans opposed en masse an amendment by Mr. Schumer to rescind Mr. Trump\u2019s tariffs if they increased the cost of Americans\u2019 groceries. They also defeated an amendment to prevent any disruptions in continuing security assistance to Ukraine, though two Republicans \u2014 Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska \u2014 joined Democrats to support it.<\/p>\n
Three Republicans \u2014 Ms. Collins, Ms. Murkowski and Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska \u2014 voted with Democrats to reverse Musk-imposed cuts to the Social Security Administration. The vote still failed, 49 to 50.<\/p>\n
Ms. Collins and Ms. Murkowski, along with Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, broke with their party to support a bipartisan amendment from Mr. Hawley and Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, to eliminate the Medicaid cuts envisioned in the plan. The measure, which failed 49 to 50, would have deleted an instruction to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees Medicaid, to find $880 billion in spending reductions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Senators did vote 51 to 48 to adopt an amendment offered by Mr. Sullivan vowing to protect Medicare and Medicaid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The budget resolution itself leaves big questions unresolved.<\/p>\n
In February, House Republicans passed a measure that would have paved the way for one huge bill that contained $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and a $2 trillion reduction in federal spending over a decade. Senate Republicans passed their own plan that punted on the issue of taxes and spending cuts, and called for a $150 billion increase in military spending and $175 billion more for border security over the next decade.<\/p>\n
Rather than reconcile those issues now, Republicans essentially agreed to postpone decisions on major issues, like how much they should lower spending to offset the cost of their tax cuts and where to find those reductions.<\/p>\n
On paper, the new Senate budget outline allows for $1.5 trillion in tax cuts, a seemingly modest amount. But that figure disguises an additional $3.8 trillion for extending the 2017 tax cuts that Senate Republicans also want to include in the bill, which they argue should not show up as a cost on the federal balance sheet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n