It is day 162 of the second Trump administration and tonight the focus is on the Senate floor. You are looking at it live right now. All day long, senators have been voting on amendments to Donald Trump's gargantuan tax and spending bill.Republicans are rushing to get the bill to Trump's desk in time for his deadline on Friday. Donald Trump wants you to focus on his campaign promises that are in the bill, like extending the tax cuts from his first term, billions of dollars for border security, and eliminati ...

I know you had an amendment on on the floor. Tell us about it. Tell us about what was what is important in that amendment, right? So, my amendment was about what the Republicans have done to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. And let me just remind everyone, that's that little agency that has forced giant banks and giant finance companies to return more than 20 billion dollar directly to 203 million people across this country, very popular. And the Republicans, they've actually taken a couple of cuts ...

And it's opposed by North Carolina Republican Senator Tom Tillis, who decided this weekend that he'd rather give up his Senate seat than be pressured into voting for this bill. So, what do I tell 663,000 people in two years or three years when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of Medicaid. how Republicans are about to make a mistake on healthc care and betraying a promise.It is inescapable that this bill in its current form will betray the very promise that Donald J. Trump made you supp ...

To the president, it's gorgeous. We call it a great big beautiful bill cuz that's what it is. But to Democrats, an ugly betrayal.The bill before the Senate is out of poison. 940 pages that make up the foundation of President Trump's agenda. So what's actually in it.Start with tax cuts, a huge piece of this plan. As written, the bill would make the president's signature 2017 cuts permanent. The bill would also let people deduct more of their state and local income taxes for the next 5 years.And it would fulf ...

To the president, it's gorgeous. We call it a great big beautiful bill because that's what it is. But to Democrats, an ugly betrayal.The bill before the Senate is out of poison. 940 pages that make up the foundation of President Trump's agenda. So what's actually in it.Start with tax cuts. A huge piece of this plan. As written, the bill would make the president's signature 2017 cuts permanent.It's been an amazing experience. The bill would also let people deduct more of their state and local income taxes fo ...

We owe it to the states to do the work to understand how these proposals affect them. How hard is that. I did it.How hard is it. I'm telling the president that you have been misinformed. You supporting the Senate mark will hurt people who are eligible and qualified for Medicaid.Hi again everyone. I'm Elisi Menendez in for Nicole Wallace and it is five o'clock here in Washington DC where the voterama taking place in the Senate is still underway on that massive domestic spending bill. A bill that would drasti ...

Joining us now, New York Times chief White House correspondent and MSNBC political analyst Peter Baker. Help me explain why Republicans are pushing this bill given the 2 to1 ratio about people liking it or not liking it. Given that impassion speech you just heard from Tom Tillis, um why are they going through with this.Well, look, obviously the tax cuts are a major major focus for President Trump. it. He considers it to be his uh signature domestic priority.After having passed his first term, he has to keep ...

If they were retiring, would they be yeses on this bill. Well, they would. No question about it, Katie.I mean, this is just a example of how complete the purge is now with his retirement and Don Bacon's announcement, the congressman from Nebraska. The the the irony here is that it's a it's a shortterm gain for Donald Trump and it's and it's just shown, you know, uh unprecedented political strength that he's been able to do this. But the problem is that he's taking people out of the party who are willing to ...

All right, we're looking at the Senate floor. More than five hours now into what we call the voterama over President Trump's massive multi-t trillion dollar policy agenda. Makes it sound a lot more fun than it is.Joining us now is Connecticut Democratic Senator Chris Murphy. Um I don't know. Is it Is it fun.Are you having a great time, Senator. No. This sucks.I mean, we're we're debating a bill that's going to cut healthcare for 16 million people. It's going to give a tax break to, you know, massively wealt ...

Joining me now is Arizona Senator Mark Kelly. Senator, really good to have you. Um, you come from an interesting state right now, especially tell me how um how your constituents feel about this bill.Well, I've been traveling across the state over the last couple months. Uh I live in Tucson, but Phoenix and Sierra Vista, Clarkdale, places like this, and it it's a horrible piece of legislation. People are fearful.Uh people who are sick and rely on Medicaid could potentially lose their insurance. I was feeding ...