{"id":10845,"date":"2025-07-01T14:31:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T14:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-prepares-to-take-final-megabill-votes\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:31:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T14:31:49","slug":"senate-prepares-to-take-final-megabill-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-prepares-to-take-final-megabill-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate prepares to take final megabill votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Senate is on track to start voting on final amendments and passage of the <a href=\"https:\/\/legislation.politicopro.com\/bill\/US_119_HR_1\" target=\"_blank\">GOP megabill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe we do&#8221; have a deal, Senate Majority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/51242\" data-person-id=\"51242\">John Thune<\/a> told reporters. <\/p>\n<p>There will be several amendments debated before the final vote, according to Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/151837\" data-person-id=\"151837\">John Hoeven<\/a> (R-N.D.). One, he said, would be from Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/51842\" data-person-id=\"51842\">Amy Klobuchar<\/a> of Minnesota, challenging a provision negotiated to placate GOP holdout Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/51218\" data-person-id=\"51218\">Lisa Murkowski<\/a> dealing with the SNAP food-aid program in her home state of Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>A final &#8220;wraparound&#8221; amendment reflecting other negotiated points is also expected to be offered that will tweak provisions dealing with Medicaid and clean energy tax credits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate is on track to start voting on final amendments and passage of the GOP megabill. &#8220;I believe we do&#8221; have a deal, Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters. There will be several amendments debated before the final vote, according to Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.). One, he said, would be from Sen. Amy [&hellip;]<\/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-10845","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\/10845","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=10845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}