Trump's tax and spending cuts bill clears key Senate vote as Republicans race to pass it by July 4

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Senate Republicans voting in a dramatic late Saturday session narrowly cleared a key procedural step as they race to advance President Donald Trump's package of tax breaks, spending cuts and bolstered deportation funds by his July Fourth deadline.

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00:00The yeas are 51. The nays are 49. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the bill.

00:10Calendar number 107, H.R. 1, an act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title 2 of H. Conres 14.

00:20I call up amendment number 2360. The clerk will report.

00:24The senator from South Dakota, Mr. Thune, proposes an amendment number 2360.

00:33Mr. President, I ask consent the reading be dispensed with.

00:35Preserving the right to objection. And I will object.

00:39Senate Republicans are scrambling to pass a radical bill released to the public in the dead of night,

00:45praying the American people don't realize what's in it.

00:49If Senate Republicans won't tell the American people what's in this bill,

00:53then Democrats are going to force this chamber to read it from start to finish. I object.

01:00Objections heard.

01:03All right.

01:08The clerk will read the amendment.

01:09The clerk will read the amendment.

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