Tax breaks for the wealthy are most important: Claire McCaskill reacts to spending bill

got to this point when after an allnight session, the chamber voted 219 to 213 to adopt a rule governing debate on the legislation, opening up discussion and teeing up this final vote on the package. A group of hardline conservatives and moderate Republicans had combined forces earlier in the evening to stall the bill. Speaker Johnson held the vote open for 5 hours as he worked to garner support from those members.Around 1:00 in the morning, President Trump picked up the phone and called those holdouts and ...