Live updates: Senate to kick off vote-a-rama on Trump megabill Monday morning
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The Senate is delaying the start of its so-called vote-a-rama on President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” until Monday.

Lawmakers had expected to kick off the series of unlimited amendment votes on the 940-page package containing Trump’s domestic agenda after completing debate sometime in the middle of the night, but opted to wait until 9 a.m.

The move comes as Trump is ramping up pressure to clear the bill and get it to his desk by July 4.

The bill narrowly advanced past a procedural hurdle late Saturday night after Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Vice President Vance struck a deal with conservatives to save it from stalling.

Democrats then forced the Senate clerks to read the bill in its entirety, a 16-hour ordeal that went through the night and wrapped up around 3 p.m., before beginning debate on the measure.

As Republicans and Democrats battle over whether the bill violates key reconciliation rules, Trump is urging Senate Republicans to overrule the Senate parliamentarian and protect key provisions of the bill.

On the Senate floor, Democrats made several parliamentary inquiries of the Senate’s presiding chair to lay the groundwork to challenge Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) use of a “current policy” budget baseline to score the extension of the 2017 tax cuts as not adding to the deficit.

“This is the nuclear option. It’s just hidden behind a whole lot of Washington, D.C., lingo,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, declared on the Senate floor.

Earlier in the day, Trump again went after Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), one of two Republicans to oppose the bill Saturday night, saying he “hurt the great people of North Carolina” and calling him a “talker and complainer.”

“Thom Tillis has hurt the great people of North Carolina,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Sunday morning. “Even on the catastrophic flooding, nothing was done to help until I took office. Then a MIRACLE took place! Tillis is a talker and complainer, NOT A DOER!”

Tillis shortly after announced he will not seek reelection to the Senate next year, firing a political shockwave into the midterm cycle.

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