Hours before a tumultuous nearing-midnight vote on President Donald Trump’s package of tax breaks, spending cuts and increased deportation money, a Republican senator stood on the chamber floor and implored the plan’s critics, “Read the bill.”
After the dramatic 51-49 roll call late Saturday, Senate Democrats did exactly that.
Unable to stop the march toward passage of the 940-page bill by Trump’s Fourth of July deadline, the minority party in Congress is using the tools at its disposal to delay and drag out the process.
By midday Sunday the Senate had rounded its 12th hour, more than halfway through the clerk’s reading of the foot-high bill. There were hours still to go.
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Author: Joe Weber
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