Only one Republican
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2025 7:25 am
Sen. Rand Paul, voted against the resolution. All Democrats opposed it.
The vote kicks off up to 50 hours of debate that will culminate in a marathon voting session of symbolic amendments, known as a vote-a-rama, before a final vote on adopting the budget resolution as late as Saturday.
Yet even as Republicans moved forward with the budget resolution amid confidence from leadership, they are still facing some red flags within their conference.
Senate Budget Committee Republicans and Majority Leader John Thune met with Trump on Wednesday at the White House, which appeared to win over some of the deficit hawks. Trump vowed to conservatives on the panel phone number library that he would back efforts to cut spending beyond the minimums laid out in the budget resolution — something he subsequently did at a Rose Garden event and in a Truth Social post.
But Republicans are still facing questions from other corners of the conference over the decision to use an accounting tactic, known as current policy baseline, that would make an extension of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts appear to cost nothing. GOP leaders hope to deploy this strategy in the party-line bill they want to pass through reconciliation to enact Trump’s agenda, for which the budget resolution would pave the way.
The vote kicks off up to 50 hours of debate that will culminate in a marathon voting session of symbolic amendments, known as a vote-a-rama, before a final vote on adopting the budget resolution as late as Saturday.
Yet even as Republicans moved forward with the budget resolution amid confidence from leadership, they are still facing some red flags within their conference.
Senate Budget Committee Republicans and Majority Leader John Thune met with Trump on Wednesday at the White House, which appeared to win over some of the deficit hawks. Trump vowed to conservatives on the panel phone number library that he would back efforts to cut spending beyond the minimums laid out in the budget resolution — something he subsequently did at a Rose Garden event and in a Truth Social post.
But Republicans are still facing questions from other corners of the conference over the decision to use an accounting tactic, known as current policy baseline, that would make an extension of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts appear to cost nothing. GOP leaders hope to deploy this strategy in the party-line bill they want to pass through reconciliation to enact Trump’s agenda, for which the budget resolution would pave the way.