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The budget bill that would get most of President Donald Trump's agenda passed is closer to becoming a reality.
In the early morning hours Saturday, the Senate passed a budget resolution that includes many of the president's policies. It passed mostly along party lines in a 51 to 48 vote at around 2:30 a.m. ET.
Senate Democrats proposed a number of amendments to the resolution, including ones protecting social security, Medicare and Medicaid, but those amendments mostly failed along party lines. The amendment votes took up about six hours.
The amended framework would raise the debt ceiling by up to $5 trillion. The bill contains tax cuts that President Trump promised while on the campaign trail and makes his 2017 tax cuts permanent. It also includes more funding for the military and the border.
"This resolution is the first step toward a final bill to make permanent the tax relief we implemented in 2017 and deliver a transformational investment in our border, national, and energy security - all accompanied by substantial savings measures and commonsense reforms to our government," Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said Friday.
Senators Susan Collins and Rand Paul were the only Republicans to oppose the measure.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., proposed amendments to try and limit many of Trump's tariffs and put a block on potential cuts to Medicaid.
"Senate Democrats gave Senate Republicans the chance to hit the kill switch on Donald Trump's tariffs on DOGE, on the attacks against Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid," Schumer said after the vote. "And at each opportunity, Republicans refused."
The measure now goes over to the House.