{"id":10710,"date":"2025-06-27T19:31:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T19:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-slated-to-take-first-vote-on-megabill-saturday\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T19:31:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T19:31:39","slug":"senate-slated-to-take-first-vote-on-megabill-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-slated-to-take-first-vote-on-megabill-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate slated to take first vote on megabill Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senate Republicans are planning to take an initial vote at noon on Saturday to take up the megabill.<\/p>\n

Leadership laid out the timeline during a closed-door lunch on Friday, Sen. John Kennedy<\/a> (R-La.) and John Hoeven<\/a> (R-N.D.) said after the lunch. A person granted anonymity to discuss internal scheduling confirmed the noon timeline but cautioned Republicans haven’t locked in the schedule yet.<\/p>\n

During the lunch, Speaker Mike Johnson <\/a>pitched Senate Republicans on the tentative SALT deal, according to three people in the room. He said the deal was as good as Republican can get, according to the people.<\/p>\n

Johnson noted he still has \u201cone holdout\u201d \u2014 an apparent reference to New York Republican Nick LaLota<\/a>, who said in a brief interview Friday that if there was a deal, he was not part of it.<\/p>\n

Leaving the meeting, Johnson was asked by reporters whether he thought Senate Republicans would accept the SALT deal. \u201cI believe they will,\u201d he replied. \u201cThey’re going to digest the final calculations, but I think we’re very, very close to closing that issue.\u201d <\/p>\n

In the meeting, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Johnson laid out details of the fragile agreement, telling Senate Republicans the House SALT deal would be cut in half, to total roughly $192 billion. They restated it would raise the SALT cap to $40,000 for five years under the current House-negotiated SALT deal, and snap back to the current $10,000 cap after that.<\/p>\n

In related matters, Kennedy and Hoeven also said the Senate will keep its provider tax proposal but delay its implementation, which Republicans believe will help it comply with budget rules. and Johnson also told Senate Republicans that he wants to do another reconciliation bill \u2014 which senators took to mean they would get another opportunity to secure spending cuts or provisions passed that have been squeezed out of the megabill.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senate Republicans are planning to take an initial vote at noon on Saturday to take up the megabill. Leadership laid out the timeline during a closed-door lunch on Friday, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) and John Hoeven (R-N.D.) said after the lunch. A person granted anonymity to discuss internal scheduling confirmed the noon timeline but cautioned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}