With a week up to a deadline on July 4, the Congress approves the megabill of President Donald Trump, the Senate Republicans are reviewing the final conflict points, with the end in view and a possible vote this weekend.
On Friday afternoon, the Senate Republicans met with the Treasury Secretary, Scott Besent, who described the approval of the bill, the “most important economic thing we are going to do this year.”
The secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent, speaks with the members of the press, after meeting with the Senate Republicans in the Washington Capitol, on June 27, 2025.
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The president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, chewed the law of a great bill with the Senate Republicans at the closed door lunch on Friday, telling journalists that then the version of the Senate of the legislation is almost finished.
“We had a great discussion about many important problems, and I feel that we are approaching a final product,” Johnson said when he left the meeting.
The speaker of the Chamber of the Mining stops to answer a question of the reporters while heading to the camera for the final votes of the week in the Capitol in Washington, on June 27, 2025.
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While the Senate dealt with the state and local tax provision, Johnson said he believes that the senators are “very, very close to the closing of that problem.”
It is expected that the version in the Senate of the bill will reach the floor of the Senate on Saturday afternoon. It begins with a procedural vote on the motion to proceed to the bill, which requires that the simple majority of the votes be approved.
Assuming that the bill obtains the necessary votes to proceed, there are up to 20 hours of debate, uniformly divided between Republicans and Democrats. Republicans will probably return most of their ten hours. Democrats probably use it near everything.
After an unlimited series of voting votes, the Senate could vote on the final approval of the bill at some point on Sunday.
Even so, there are some obstacles. The Senate parliamentarian rejected a Medicaid provision on the bill, which is a great blow to the efforts of the Senate Republicans. In addition, the leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, can afford to lose only three Republican votes when the bill goes to the Senate’s floor, given the unified democratic opposition in the Senate.
“Everything depends on … we have some things that we are waiting for, the results of the parliamentarian, but if we could get some of those questions, and my expectation is at some point tomorrow, we will be ready to go,” Thune said Friday.
The leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, speaks with journalists after the Senate Weekly Republican Lunch in the Washington Capitol, on June 24, 2025.
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Johnson and Thune met with Trump on Thursday night at the Oval office on the Tax and Immigration bill as the Barrica Congress towards its self -imposed deadline on July 4.
“We had a long discussion about … where the bill and its status is located. And they are, we are very close, and the leader Thune has confidence that they could do the work this weekend, and we certainly have the hope of that,” Johnson said about Thursday’s meeting.
The earliest Friday, Johnson suggested that the deadline of July 4 could happen, saying “it is possible” that the deadline can change, although he said he wanted to remain committed to the goal of the Julio room. However, later in the day, Johnson attached to Independence Day.
“That has been our goal all the time, and it has not changed,” said the speaker, and added that “the camera is ready to act as soon as the Senate does.”
After pretending its long and self -imposed deadline of the July room so that Congress approved its massive immigration and tax bill, Trump then doubled on the date on a publication on social networks.
“The House of Representatives must be ready to send it to my desk before July 4, we can do it,” the president wrote.
President Donald Trump speaks together with the Attorney General Pam Bondi and the attached attorney general Todd Blanche during a press conference in the Brady Brady Room of the White House, on June 27, 2025, in Washington.
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Previously, when asked about the deadline during a press conference in the Information Room of the White House, the president said “it is not the end” and that “it can spend more time.”
On Thursday, the leaders of Congress and the Administration promoted the benefits of the package during a celebration in the East Room of the White House.
As the Senate aims to advance this weekend with the Megabill, the camera leaders told the members in a formal notice “pending the action of the Senate in Rr. HH. 1, votes are expected on the great bill that is expected in the Chamber next week”, interrupting a recess of the independence of a planned week.
“More information will be provided about the moment of the votes as soon as possible, and the members will receive a minimum warning of 48 hours before any vote in the camera,” establishes the notice.
Earlier this week, Trump told the members of Congress that they would have to give up vacations to take the bill to their desk.
“For my friends in the Senate, get on a room if necessary, do not go home and make the deal this week,” Trump published on his social networks platform. “He works with the house so they can pick it up and spend it immediately. No one goes on vacation until it ends.”
